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Monument details

HER Number:TR 16 SE 241
Type of record:Monument
Name:Sturry, School Pit - abundant Palaeolithic finds including c. 200 handaxes, one Levallois core, numerous retouched flakes and debitage

Summary

Sturry, School Pit - abundant Palaeolithic finds including c. 200 handaxes, one Levallois core, numerous retouched flakes and debitage

Grid Reference:TR 175 606
Map Sheet:TR16SE
Parish:STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • DEBITAGE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • LEVALLOIS CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Substantial collection held by British Museum and Canterbury Museum (1). School Pit is just to the west of Herne Bay Road. Pit was still open in 1992 and J Wymer found a flake in situ in gravel near the wooden lodge (2, 3). Abundance of material suggests site was a focus of activity, since unlikely that such a concentration formed by river movement.


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p178 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.29, p146 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S4 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p178.
<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-4.29, p146.
<3>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. S4.