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ID:SKE53196
Title:The Ebbsfleet Elephant, Excavations at Southfleet Road, Swanscombe, in advance of High Speed 1, 2003-4
Originator:Oxford Archaeology
Date:2013
Summary:This monograph provides the full account of the discovery, excavation and subsequent analysis of remains from a sequence of rich archaeological horizons found late in the construction programme and dating to early in the Palaeolithic period, associated with the Hoxnian interglacial between approximately 425,000 and 375,000 years ago. The highlight of this work was the identification of the remains of the carcass of an extinct straighttusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, surrounded by the undisturbed scatter of flint tools used for its butchery, made and abandoned at the spot.

Associated Monuments

TQ 67 SW 456Flint artefact scatter close to the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Flint artefact scatter close to the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Flint artefact scatter close to the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Flint artefact scatter close to the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Numerous Palaeolithic handaxes (and other flint artefacts) from gravel overlying the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Numerous Palaeolithic handaxes (and other flint artefacts) from gravel overlying the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Numerous Palaeolithic handaxes (and other flint artefacts) from gravel overlying the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 456Numerous Palaeolithic handaxes (and other flint artefacts) from gravel overlying the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 1440One (very fine) Palaeolithic handaxe from Ebbsfleet, Station Quarter South, TP 25 (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 470Palaeolithic (Clactonian) elephant butchery site, Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 470Palaeolithic (Clactonian) elephant butchery site, Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 470Palaeolithic (Clactonian) elephant butchery site, Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 470Palaeolithic (Clactonian) elephant butchery site, Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet (Monument) ()
TQ 67 SW 1441Palaeolithic ostracod and mollusc remains from dried lake-bed sediments near the HS1 Ebbsfleet elephant site (Pleistocene Environmental Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()
TQ 67 SW 1444Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot) ()