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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1804 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Middle Bronze Age flint scatter |
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Summary
Activity dated to the middle Bronze Age was located at the top of the peat sequence, at the interface with the overlying 'upper clay silts'. This comprised a small scatter of 81 worked flints. (location accurate to the nearest 5m based on available informaiton)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6174 7415 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- WORKED FLINT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Full description
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Activity dated to the middle Bronze Age was located at the top of the peat sequence, at the interface with the overlying 'upper clay silts'. This comprised a small scatter of 81 worked flints the high proportion of microdebitage and irregular waste in the assemblage implies that it was deposited following a knapping episode. No retouched or utilised pieces were identified. Technologially, the flintwork was probably of Bronze Age dtae. Five sherds of pottery were also recovered from the overlying sediment with a further 44 worked flint and 10 pieces of burint unworked flint. The pottery comprised thick walled rim and body sherds which could be from a single jar or bucket Urn which is likley to have belonged to the Deverel Rimby ceramic tradition.
<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2020, Prehistoric Ebbslfeet (Monograph). SKE54979.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2020. Prehistoric Ebbslfeet. |
