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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SE 387 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Late upper Palaeolithic core plus possible blades, surface-finds from 'The Mounts', Swanscombe |
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Summary
Late upper Palaeolithic core plus possible blades, surface-finds from 'The Mounts', Swanscombe, made by H Stopes in late 19th Century.
Location approximate based on available information.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58 73 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SE |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- CORE (Upper Palaeolithic - 40000 BC to 10001 BC)
Full description
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Late Upper Palaeolithic core plus possible blades, surface-finds from 'The Mounts', Swanscombe, made by H Stopes in late 19th Century, and held with rest of Stopes flint collection at NHM, Cardiff (1). Probably a 'Long Blade' core from very end of Upper Palaeolithic, at transition from Pleistocene to Holocene.
Location approximate based on available information.
<1> Wenban-Smith F. F., March 2004, The Stopes Palaeolithic Project: Final Report, #5 (Unpublished document). SWX12877.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wenban-Smith F. F.. March 2004. The Stopes Palaeolithic Project: Final Report. #5. |
