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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 15 NW 1613
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Fresh condition ovate handaxes from base of brickearth at Cozens & Sons 40 Acre Pit, Canterbury

Summary

Fresh condition ovate handaxes from base of brickearth at Cozens & Sons 40 Acre Pit, Canterbury

Grid Reference:	TR 143 589
Map Sheet:	TR15NW
Parish:	CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Numerous handaxes were found in/around the brickearth and gravel pit comples known as Forty Acres Pit or St Stephen's Pit, worked by Cozens and Son in the earlier 20th C (1, 2, 3, 4). The main pit lies immediately to the west of the branch railway line to Whitstable. This HER relates specifically to report (1) of several large, sharp and unabraded ovate implements recovered by Ince from base of brickearth, at its basal junction with the underlying gravel bed (2, 3).

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

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.27, p 146 (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>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355.
<3>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.27, p 146.