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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SE 1003 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Alkerden Lane Allotments site of palaeolithic potential |
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Summary
Alkerden Lane Allotments, adjacent to Swanscombe Skull Site National Nature Reserve. This is one of the few surviving locations known to contain the full sequence of Barnfield Pit deposit and has high lower palaolithic potential (location accurate to the nearest 5m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 596 742 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SE |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Full description
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This site is adjacent to Swanscombe Skull Site National Nature Reserve and is one of the few surviving locations known to contain the full sequence of Barnfield Pit deposit phases I, II and III including the Acheulian skull horizon and the Clactonian occupation surface at the top of the Lower Loam. Part of this area is designated as a SSSI and although no finds are known from the site due to it never have been excavated, it was referenced in the SRPP (1) to highlight its importance.
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.20 (Monograph). SWX6569.
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]. NWK 4.20. |
