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Monument details

HER Number:	TR 16 NW 1000
Type of record:	Pleistocene Environmental Findspot
Name:	Swalecliffe foreshore, lower (eastern) outcropping Last Glacial channel - mollusc-rich deposits and source of various ice age fossil mammal recoveries

Summary

Swalecliffe foreshore, lower (eastern) outcropping Last Glacial channel - mollusc-rich deposits and source of various ice age fossil mammal recoveries

Grid Reference:	TR 133 674
Map Sheet:	TR16NW
Parish:	WHITSTABLE, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

MAMMAL REMAINS (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
MOLLUSCA REMAINS (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Swalecliffe foreshore, lower (eastern) outcropping Last Glacial channel - mollusc-rich deposits and source of various ice age fossil mammal recoveries, none of them however found in situ (1-3). Continuation of deposits that have produced ice age fossils and other palaeo-environmental remains at Swalecliffe Wastewater Treatment Works (4, 5).

<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p.179 (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], M-7, No.3, p 134 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<3> Worsfold, F. H., 1926, Observations on the provenance of the Thames Valley Pick, Swalecliffe, Kent, p.226 (Article in serial). SWX6578.

<4> RPS, 2000, Swalecliffe WWTW (Stage 3) Secondary Treatment Scheme Archaeology Assessment Report and Updated Project Design: Volume 1 - Palaeolithic (Unpublished document). SKE17411.

<5> Green, C.P., Allen, T., Bowen, D.Q. & Keen, D.H., 1998, Swalecliffe (Article in serial). SKE29744.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p.179.
<2>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M-7, No.3, p 134.
<3>	Article in serial: Worsfold, F. H.. 1926. Observations on the provenance of the Thames Valley Pick, Swalecliffe, Kent. p.226.
<4>	Unpublished document: RPS. 2000. Swalecliffe WWTW (Stage 3) Secondary Treatment Scheme Archaeology Assessment Report and Updated Project Design: Volume 1 - Palaeolithic.
<5>	Article in serial: Green, C.P., Allen, T., Bowen, D.Q. & Keen, D.H.. 1998. Swalecliffe. In (JB Murton et al., eds) The Quaternary of Kent & Sussex: Field Guide: 56-60. Quaternary Research Association, London..