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Monument details

Summary

A small scatter of 64 struck flints and a concentration opf burnt flint, together with an area of burning was discovered during excavations associated with road construction near ebbsfleet international Station. (location accurate to the nearest 10m based on available informaiton)

Monument Types

• ARTEFACT SCATTER (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1120 BC to 910 BC) + Sci.Date

Full description

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Within excavation area 4 for the South Thameside Development Route, activity dated to the late Bronze age was located at the top of the peat sequence, at the interface with the overlying upper clay silts (caused by the late Holocene marine incursion which occurred in this area in the Bronze and Iron Age) was a small scatter of 64 struck flints and a concentration opf burnt flint, together with an area of burning. The quantity of the chips and the irregular waste suggest that the flint assemblage contains some knapping debitage, whilst similarities in the flint type indicate that elements from the same knapping sequence have probably been deposited together. Several fragments of late bronze age pot were retrieved from a sample of the burnt flint scatter and a C14 date on peat from the same sample produced a late BA date (1)

<1> Wenban-Smith FF, et al.,, 2012, Prehistoric Ebbsfleet: Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed 1 and STDR 4. (Monograph). SKE32262.

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