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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 16 SE 9
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Homersham's West Pit, Sturry - abundant lithic remains from terrace gravel, including numerous handaxes

Summary

Many Lower Palaeolithic implements including handaxes, roughouts, flakes, cores and miscellaneous objects found in various pits near Herne Bay Road. Objects found on Head Brickearth, Head Gravel and Terrace 2 Gravel geology.

Grid Reference:	TR 175 607
Map Sheet:	TR16SE
Parish:	STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

OCCUPATION SITE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150000 BC)
FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
ROUGHOUT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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[Centred TR 1861] Five gravel pits to the north and northeast of Sturry, in the area bounded by Herne Bay Road, Island Road, Hoade's Court Road and Hawe Lane, have yielded palaeolithic implements of
Chellian, Archeulian and Mousterian types. (1-3)

In store in Maidstone Museum, ex Gordon Ward collection, are a number of Acheulian hand axes and orates and some Clactonian flakes and scrapers from Sturry. A similar selection of implements, ex Dr. A. G.Ince's collection, are on exhibition at Canterbury Museum. The area of gravel working centred TR 181609, is large, extending for over 1000.0m. E-W. The pits have long been disused and are in the process of being filled in and levelled up for building. (4)

Homersham East Pit is also known as Homersham New Cutting, Court's Pit, Meadow Pit and Whatmer Hall Pit. 310 handaxes, 10 roughouts 21 retouched flakes, 55 flakes and 4 cores and 16 miscellaneous finds were found in the pit. (5)

<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent. (Article in serial). SKE29699.

<2> Anon, 1933, Notes: The Garraway Rice Collection (Article in serial). SKE29696.

<3> Bowes, A, 1929, Another flint from Sturry (Article in serial). SKE29749.

<4> F1 CFW 20.09.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42660.

<5> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape, page 5 (Unpublished document). SKE7002.

<6> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 9 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5558.

<7> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p. 178 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4, No.30, p 147 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Article in serial: Dewey H, Smith RA. 1925. Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent.. Kent. Archaeologia 74: 117-136.
<2>	Article in serial: Anon. 1933. Notes: The Garraway Rice Collection.
<3>	Article in serial: Bowes, A. 1929. Another flint from Sturry. Antiquaries Journal 9: 245-246..
<4>	OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 20.09.63.
<5>	Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1994. A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape. page 5.
<6>	Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 SE 9 - September, 1963.
<7>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p. 178.
<8>XY	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, No.30, p 147. [Mapped feature: #44219 find, ]