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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 87 NW 1077
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Four Palaeolithic flakes recovered during test-pitting at Newhall Farm, Allhallows

Summary

Four Palaeolithic flakes recovered during test-pitting at Newhall Farm, Allhallows, recovered from a test pit (TP 1) dug for the Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project in August 2005

Grid Reference:	TQ 8300 7679
Map Sheet:	TQ87NW
Parish:	ALLHALLOWS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)

Associated Finds

FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)

Full description

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In August 2005, three test pits were dug for the Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (2) in the gravel outcrop at Newhall Farm, mapped as T2 by the BGS, and attributed to Newhall Gravel by Bridgland (1). Four technologically undiagnostic flakes were found in TP 1, from sieve-sampling of undisturbed gravel between 1.5m and 3.5m below the ground-surface, with the gravel's base-level at c. 19m OD.

<1> Bridgland, D.R., 2003, The evolution of the River Medway, SE England, in the context of Quaternary palaeoclimate and the Palaeolithic occupation of NW Europe (Monograph). SWX12900.

<2> Wenban-Smith F. F., Bates M.R and Marshall G., 2007, Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project Final Report: The Palaeolithic Resource in the Medway Gravels (Kent) (Unpublished document). SKE29351.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Monograph: Bridgland, D.R.. 2003. The evolution of the River Medway, SE England, in the context of Quaternary palaeoclimate and the Palaeolithic occupation of NW Europe.
<2>	Unpublished document: Wenban-Smith F. F., Bates M.R and Marshall G.. 2007. Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project Final Report: The Palaeolithic Resource in the Medway Gravels (Kent).