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Monument details

Summary

During recording work undertaken on the sections at Barnfield pit in the late 1920s and early 1930s, finds including handaxes, flint flakes and animal remains were identified, largely within the gravel deposits. (location accurate to the nearest 50m based on available information)

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
• ANIMAL REMAINS? (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
• CRUSTACEAN REMAINS (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
• FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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During recording work undertaken on the sections at Barnfield pit in the late 1920s and early 1930s, finds including handaxes, flint flakes and animal remains were identified, largely within the gravel deposits. In detail the position of shell and bone was identified at the top of the lower gravel, handaxes and flint flakes at the top of the lower middle gravel, abundant Theodoxus Cantianus (freshwater snail) in the middle of the lower gravel and further handaxes and flint flakes at the top of the lower gravel. (1)

<1> Conway BW, McNabb J, & Ashton N, (ed's), 1996, Excavations at Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, 1968–72. (Monograph). SKE32240.

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