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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 16 SE 247 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Sturry, Ashenden's Pits, West and East - quite numerous Palaeolithic handaxes, a Levallois core and a Levallois flake |
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Summary
Sturry, Ashenden's Pits, West and East - quite numerous Palaeolithic handaxes, a Levallois core and a Levallois flake
| Grid Reference: | TR 18 60 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR16SE |
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| Parish: | STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- OCCUPATION SITE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- LEVALLOIS CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- LEVALLOIS FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Numerous handaxes, a Levallois core and a Levallois flake reported by Dewey & Smith (1), as well as some further handaxes reported by Brade-Birks (2), and then material from site seen by Roe (3), and site then included in the Southern Rivers Project (4, 5). Uncertain where most of the finds came from stratigraphically, but clear from Dewey & Smith (1, p.132) that dense concentrations of minimally disturbed material present in places.
Francis Wenban-Smith noted in the Stour Basin Palaeolithic Project : "artefact counts based on Dewey & Smith's paper and Brade-Birks' find - none clearly identified in Roe's 1968 Gazetteer".
<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent. (Article in serial). SKE29699.
<2> Brade-Birks, SG, 1929, A palaeolith from Sturry (Article in serial). SKE29853.
<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p177 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.34, p147 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<5> 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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S4 (Unpublished document).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> | Article in serial: Dewey H, Smith RA. 1925. Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent.. Kent. Archaeologia 74: 117-136. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Brade-Birks, SG. 1929. A palaeolith from Sturry. Antiquaries Journal 9: 244-245. |
| <3> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p177. |
| <4> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.34, p147. |
| <5> | 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. |
