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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 NW 334
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Palaeolithic handaxes and debitage scatter near West Cliffe church, Dover

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxes and debitage scatter near West Cliffe church, Dover

Grid Reference:TR 34620 45200
Map Sheet:TR34NW
Parish:ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • OCCUPATION SITE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Flint scatter found at TR 3462 4520 during field walking in 1995, to northwest of West Cliffe church with 6 complete Palaeolithic handaxes, 3 fragmentary handaxes and c. 200 struck flint debitage thought also to be Palaeolithic. More general scatter in this area includes Later Prehistoric flint artefacts. (1)

The site has been further investigated by Durham University with a programme of survey, trial trenching and small scale excavation taking place between 2002 and 2004. It is unpublished except for a paper on the luminescence dating of the sediment. (2)


<1> Parfitt K, Halliwell, G, 1996, More Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent, p. 62 (Article in serial). SKE29752.

<2> Bailiff, I. K; Lewis, S. G; Drinkall, H. C and White M. J, 2013, Luminescence dating of sediments from a Palaeolithic site associated with a solution feature on the North Downs of Kent (Article in serial). SKE53504.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Parfitt K, Halliwell, G. 1996. More Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent. Kent Archaeological Review 123: 58-64.. p. 62.
<2>Article in serial: Bailiff, I. K; Lewis, S. G; Drinkall, H. C and White M. J. 2013. Luminescence dating of sediments from a Palaeolithic site associated with a solution feature on the North Downs of Kent. . Quaternary Geochronology 18:135-148..