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Monument details

Summary

Sturry, several handaxe and debitage finds from Hoath/Hoades Wood pit (Dadd/Neville/Cooper)

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Dewey & Smith report three handaxes, two ovates and a more pointed form, and a flake from this pit (1). The pointed handaxe and one of the ovates were described as in sharp condition. Roe (2) reported one handaxe from Hoath Wood Pit in the Ashmolean, and the site later included in the Southern Rivers Project (3, 4), where Roe is quoted as suggesting that further material in Plymouth Museum and the British Museum might be attributable to this site.

<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent. (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], S-4.32, p147 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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