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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 20
Type of record:Monument
Name:Palaeolithic flint core

Summary

Palaeolithic flint core, from base of terrace gravel at Riverdale, Canterbury

Grid Reference:TR 16 60
Map Sheet:TR16SE
Parish:HACKINGTON, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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A large flint flake core, with large removals radially flaked off one face, was found in 1938 at the base of a gravel deposit (c. 5.5m below the ground surface) on the north side of the Stour a little east of Canterbury. (1, 2)


<1> Bowes, A, 1939, A remarkable flint core (Article in serial). SKE29698.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.21, p 146 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYArticle in serial: Bowes, A. 1939. A remarkable flint core. [Mapped feature: #43381 find, ]
<2>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.21, p 146.