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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 96 SW 227
Type of record:Monument
Name:Late Middle or Upper Palaeolithic flints from brickearth at Bapchild - pit east of Haywood

Summary

Late Middle or Upper Palaeolithic flints (possibly Federmesser or Long Blade) from brickearth at Bapchild - pit east of Haywood

Grid Reference:TQ 93800 62410
Map Sheet:TQ96SW
Parish:TONGE, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • CORE (Middle Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic - 150000 BC to 7001 BC)
  • DEBITAGE (Middle Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic - 150000 BC to 7001 BC)
  • RETOUCHED FLAKE (Middle Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic - 150000 BC to 7001 BC)
  • MAMMAL REMAINS (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 40000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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Flint artefacts (mostly large blades, also some cores, a burin and some flake-tools) of Late Middle (British Mousterian) or Upper Palaeolithic (possibly Federmesser or Long Blade) recovered in late 1920s from brickearth at Bapchild, pit east of Haywood (1, 2, 4). Found in association with fire-cracked flint and faunal remains of Late Prehistoric character such as goat, pig and deer (1, 2). Flints reported at two levels: a fresher condition assemblage from c. 1ft above base of brickearth, and a more-abraded assemblage from gravelly deposits at the base of the brickearth (1, 2). Jacobi attributed this material to late Upper Palaeolithic Federmesser occupation after the Last Glacial Maximum (3). Other sources (5-9).


<1> Dines, HG, 1928, The Palaeolithic site at Bapchild, near Sittingbourne (Article in serial). SKE29691.

<2> Dines, HG, 1929, The flint industries of Bapchild (Article in serial). SKE29692.

<3> Jacobi, R.M, 1982, Later hunters in Kent: Tasmania and the earliest Neolithic (Article in monograph). SKE29693.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-1.1 (p. 142) (Monograph). SWX6569.

<5> Rochester Naturalist 6 No 130 1928 104 (N C Cook) (OS Card Reference). SKE49310.

<6> Rochester Naturalist 6 No 132 1932 146 (N C Cook) (OS Card Reference). SKE49312.

<7> Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer MS in progress (OS Card Reference). SKE46425.

<8> F1 ASP 24-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42261.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Dines, HG. 1928. The Palaeolithic site at Bapchild, near Sittingbourne.
<2>Article in serial: Dines, HG. 1929. The flint industries of Bapchild.
<3>Article in monograph: Jacobi, R.M. 1982. Later hunters in Kent: Tasmania and the earliest Neolithic.
<4>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-1.1 (p. 142).
<5>OS Card Reference: Rochester Naturalist 6 No 130 1928 104 (N C Cook).
<6>OS Card Reference: Rochester Naturalist 6 No 132 1932 146 (N C Cook).
<7>OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer MS in progress.
<8>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 24-JUL-59.