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Monument details

HER Number:TR 16 SE 252
Type of record:Monument
Name:Westbere, Sturry, Staines Hill Pit - several Palaeolithic handaxes, one retouched flake and several debitage

Summary

Westbere, Sturry, Staines Hill Pit - several Palaeolithic handaxes, one retouched flake and several debitage, presumed from terrace gravels

Grid Reference:TR 184 610
Map Sheet:TR16SE
Parish:STURRY, CANTERBURY, 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)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Reasonably large collection of Palaeolithic finds - four handaxes, one retouched flake and ten flakes - from Staines Hill, Westbere seen by Roe (1) in collections of British Museum and Plymouth Museum, but no info on provenance and circumstances of recovery. Included in Southern Rivers Project (2, 3) as part of general Westbere material, although pit at Staines Hill at NGR 618470 161030 shown on OS mapping of 1896 and 1907


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p187 (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-6.1, p150 (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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S6 (Unpublished document).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. p187.
<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-6.1, p150.
<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Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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]. S6.