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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 1125 |
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| Type of record: | Pleistocene Environmental Findspot |
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| Name: | Mammoth tusk, from base of terrace gravel at Riverdale, Canterbury |
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Summary
Mammoth tusk, from base of terrace gravel at Riverdale, Canterbury
| Grid Reference: | TR 16 59 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | HACKINGTON, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- MAMMAL REMAINS (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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A mammoth tusk was found in 1938 at the base of a gravel deposit (c. 5.5m below the ground surface) on the north side of the Stour a little east of Canterbury. (1, 2)
<1> Bowes, A, 1939, A remarkable flint core (Article in serial). SKE29698.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.21, p 146 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Bowes, A. 1939. A remarkable flint core. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.21, p 146. |
