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Monument details

Summary

Swalecliffe foreshore, Worsfold's find of woolly rhino tooth with flint flakes

Monument Types

• BUTCHERY SITE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

• DEBITAGE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
• MAMMAL REMAINS (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Swalecliffe foreshore, Worsfold's find of woolly rhino with flint flakes. According to Worsfold (1, 2) a woolly rhino tooth was found on the foreshore in situ in a deposit 12 feet below the top of the cliff, in association with flint scrapers of "Northfleet type" a point and flint flakes. His papers give details of the findspot location. It is possible he was correct, but it is more likely that the finds were reworked and embedded in the clay by wave washing. Mr Harvey confirmed the site location (3) and has in his possession a collection of flints obtained from the site while it was being eroded by the sea.

<1> Worsfold, F. H., 1926, Observations on the provenance of the Thames Valley Pick, Swalecliffe, Kent (Article in serial). SWX6578.

<2> Worsfold, F.H., 1926a, An examination of the contents of the brickearths and gravels of Tankerton Bay, Swalecliffe, Kent (Article in serial). SKE29740.

<3> Inf Mr Wallace C Harvey (local historian) 53 Oxford St Whitstable (OS Card Reference). SKE44357.

<4> F1 ASP 29.11.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42341.

<5> Field report for monument TR 16 NW 4 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5533.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M-7.3, p 134 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<7> Green, C.P., Allen, T., Bowen, D.Q. & Keen, D.H., 1998, Swalecliffe (Article in serial). SKE29744.

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