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Monument details

HER Number:TR 25 NW 491
Type of record:Monument
Name:Littlebourne, Swanton Pit - several Palaeolithic handaxes (n=5) and two flakes

Summary

Littlebourne, Swanton Pit - several Palaeolithic handaxes (n=5) and two flakes

Grid Reference:TR 202 590
Map Sheet:TR25NW
Parish:LITTLEBOURNE, 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)

Full description

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Five Palaeolithic handaxes and two flakes seen by Roe (1) in collections of British Museum and Cambridge Museum of Ethnography and Archaeology, then included in Southern Rivers Project (2, 3). Pit is near mapped outcrops of terrace gravel in the plateau between Great Stour and Little Stour.


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p139 (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-6.5, 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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S6 (Unpublished document).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.

<4> Smith RA, 1918, Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon remains discovered by Capt. L. Moysey at Howletts, near Bridge, Kent (Article in serial). SKE29762.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p139.
<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-6.5, 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Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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.
<4>Article in serial: Smith RA. 1918. Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon remains discovered by Capt. L. Moysey at Howletts, near Bridge, Kent. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries 30: 102-113..