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Monument details

HER Number:TR 35 SW 457
Type of record:Monument
Name:Great Mongeham, Deal - Levallois core and waste flakes found within brickearth at Orchard House

Summary

Great Mongeham, Deal - Levallois core and waste flakes found within brickearth at Orchard House

Grid Reference:TR 348 513
Map Sheet:TR35SW
Parish:GREAT MONGEHAM, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Great Mongeham, Deal - report of Levallois core and associated "pile of flint chips", found at depth of 1.25 m down in brickearth while excavating for a swimming pool, pers. comm. G Halliwell in Southern Rivers Project (1, 2), and site also mentioned in Halliwell and Parfitt 1993 (3).


<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-6.14, p151 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<2> 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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S6 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

<3> Halliwell, G. & Parfitt, K, 1993, Non-river gravel Lower and Middle Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent, p88 (Article in serial). SKE29751.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-6.14, p151.
<2>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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]. S6.
<3>Article in serial: Halliwell, G. & Parfitt, K. 1993. Non-river gravel Lower and Middle Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent. Kent Archaeological Review 114: 80-89.. p88.