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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 15 NE 22
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Palaeolithic flint implements, found Vauxhall Brickworks, cavalry barracks end, Canterbury

Summary

Lower Palaeolithic implements found in Gaskin's Pit, also know as Vauxhall pit or Vauxhall Brick Works. Handaxes, flakes, retouched flakes, levallois flakes and points found probably from the base of Brickearth.

Grid Reference:	TR 161 589
Map Sheet:	TR15NE
Parish:	CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Vauxhall Brick Works, on the south side of the Canterbury-Sturry road and east of the barracks, has yielded palaeolithic implements including Acheulian ovates and Mousterian points. Various pits were open at different times, and the precise provenance of any finds is unknown. (1-4)

<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent., pp. 134-135 (Article in serial). SKE29699.

<2> F1 ASP 05-FEB-65 (OS Card Reference). SKE41940.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.23, p 146 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites (Monograph). SWX6570.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>XY	Article in serial: Dewey H, Smith RA. 1925. Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent.. Kent. Archaeologia 74: 117-136. pp. 134-135. [Mapped feature: #43383 find, ]
<2>	OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 05-FEB-65.
<3>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.23, p 146.
<4>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355.