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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 316 |
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| Type of record: | Pleistocene Environmental Findspot |
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| Name: | PEFS - Eynsford: mammoth tooth from east side of river |
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Summary
PEFS - Eynsford: mammoth tooth found while drain-laying to east of river, c. 20flint above river level
| Grid Reference: | TQ 53800 65390 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NW |
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| Parish: | EYNSFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Middle Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- MAMMAL REMAINS (Middle Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic - 40001 BC to 10001 BC)
Full description
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PEFS - Eynsford, terrace overlain by brickearth on east side of river, c. 20flint above river level: mammoth tooth from c. 1m below g-surface, found while drain-laying in late 19th century (1, 2)
<1> Prestwich J, , 1891, On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. , p152 (Article in serial). ske55094.
<2> Prestwich J, , 1889, On the recent discovery of the remains of the mammoth in the valley of the Darent. (Article in serial). ske55093.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1891. On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 47: 126-163. p152. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1889. On the recent discovery of the remains of the mammoth in the valley of the Darent. . Geological Magazine 6(3): 113-114.. |
