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Monument details

Summary

Homersham's West Pit, Sturry, new cutting - very numerous handaxes, three cores and numerous debitage, some possibly retouched into flake-tools

Monument Types

• OCCUPATION SITE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

• CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
• DEBITAGE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
• RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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More than 100 handaxes reported from site by Dewey & Smith (1), present throughout deposit sequence but most abundant in basal red gravel. More than 260 handaxes reported from site by Roe in various museum collections (2), mostly from British Museum and Canterbury Museum. Site included in Southern River's Project (3, 4), but incorrectly equated with Homersham's East Pit.

<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent., p130-131 (Article in serial). SKE29699.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p178 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S4.31, p147 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S4 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

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