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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NW 424 |
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| Type of record: | Pleistocene Environmental Findspot |
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| Name: | Pleistocene fossil mammals from Preston Hall Ragstone Quarry, Aylesford |
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Summary
Pleistocene fossil mammals from Preston Hall Ragstone Quarry, Aylesford, found in deposits overlying Lower Greensand (Hythe Beds)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7227 5770 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NW |
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| Parish: | AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- MAMMAL REMAINS (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
Full description
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Wide range of species (Hyaena, red deer, reindeer, bovid, horse, woolly rhinoceros and mammoth) from brickearth above and infilling pipes/fissures in Hythe Beds at (and vicinity of) Preston Hall Ragstone Quarry (1)
<1> Cook W.H, 1923, Excursions [III - Geological Excursion to Lower Greensand Beds and Pleistocene Drifts at Aylesford]. (Article in serial). SKE51481.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Cook W.H. 1923. Excursions [III - Geological Excursion to Lower Greensand Beds and Pleistocene Drifts at Aylesford].. The South Eastern Naturalist 28: lxvi-lxx.. |
