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Monument details

HER Number:	MKE99875
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Human skull from gravel pit near Dartford, post-Palaeolithic

Summary

Human skull from gravel pit near Dartford, post-Palaeolithic. Found in c. 1902-07 by WM Newton.

Grid Reference:	TQ 541 725
Map Sheet:	TQ57SW
Parish:	WILMINGTON, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

HUMAN REMAINS (Early Neolithic to Post Medieval - 4000 BC to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

HUMAN REMAINS (Early Neolithic to Post Medieval - 4000 BC to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Human skull from gravel pit near Dartford, post-Palaeolithic. Found in 1902-07 by WM Newton (1) apparently donated by Newton to the Royal College of Surgeons and showing no primitive features (2). Location of pit corroborated by Shephard-Thorn who quotes Newton (3).

<1> Newton WM,, 1913, On Palaeolithic figures of flint found in the old river alluvia of England and France and called Figure Stones. (Article in serial). SKE32280.

<2> Jessup RF, 1930, The Archaeology of Kent., p29 (Monograph). SKE29767.

<3> Shephard-Thorn, E.R., Edited text of Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture 1959, by Henry Dewey on: Palaeolithic Deposits of the Thames at Dartford Heath and Swanscombe., p21 (Unpublished document). SKE32257.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Article in serial: Newton WM,. 1913. On Palaeolithic figures of flint found in the old river alluvia of England and France and called Figure Stones.. Journal of the British Archaeological Association vol. 19, (new series): pp. 10-24..
<2>	Monograph: Jessup RF. 1930. The Archaeology of Kent.. p29.
<3>	Unpublished document: Shephard-Thorn, E.R.. Edited text of Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture 1959, by Henry Dewey on: Palaeolithic Deposits of the Thames at Dartford Heath and Swanscombe.. p21.