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Monument details

Summary

Five flint artefacts, probably late Upper Palaeolithic, were found in the Oare area in the early 20th century. They are now in the British Museum collection. No provenance information, but last glacial brickearth deposits are well-developed in the area.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)

Associated Finds

• DEBITAGE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)

Full description

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A small series of Palaeolithic flints from Oare, Kent, are now in the BM accession numbers BM 1933 4-6 33,34,38. They came to the Museum from the collection of the late Mr Garraway- Rice, who had purchased them from a Mr J.Wilkie-Morris. Nothing further is known of their provenance. (See Illustration card) (1) TR 005630 (Sited to place name only). Five Palaeolithic flint implements, two blades/flakes two, backed tools and one other, from an open-air site at Oare are now in the BM. Information from J.B.Campbell. (2) TR010640 Oare (sited to parish name only): Five probably Late Upper Palaeolithic flint implements- two blades/flakes and three others, now in the BM. Information from J.J.Wymer. (3) Additional bibliography (4-5)

<1> PPS 4 1938 229 Fig (J.Clark) (OS Card Reference). SKE48597.

<2> CBA RR 20 Gaz Upper Pa Sites in Eng & Wales 1977 427 (ed CJ Bonsall) (OS Card Reference). SKE38930.

<3> CBA RR 20 1977 Gaz Me Sites in Eng & Wales 1977 155 (JJ Wymer) (OS Card Reference). SKE38923.

<4> The Upper Pa of Britain II 1977 140 (J.Campbell) (OS Card Reference). SKE50534.

<5> BAR 76 Prehist Wales 1980 38-39 (R.Jacobi) (OS Card Reference). SKE37567.

<6> Jacobi, R.M, 1982, Later hunters in Kent: Tasmania and the earliest Neolithic (Article in monograph). SKE29693.

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