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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 67 SW 104
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Neolithic implements at Ebbsfleet

Summary

Neolithic implements

Grid Reference:TQ 617 735
Map Sheet:TQ67SW
Parish:SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • ANIMAL REMAINS (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • MICROLITH (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full description

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[TQ617 736] Core, blades and flakes, scrapers and other implements on the Ebbsfleet. Upper and lower floors excavated by Burchell (1). Additional reference (2). The uppermost of the two floors was again recorded in 1960. When examined over a wide area than was possible by Major Burchell in 1938 this floor was found to contain a small proportion of microliths, a large collection of flint waste of markedly microlithic aspects, leaf-shaped arrowheads and fragments of course pottery, nearly all undecorated. It is in fact another Neolithic industry related to that at site 1 (see TQ 67 SW 39). Associated with this industry are the bones of a number of animals including oxen provisionally identified as Bos Primigenius (3).

Additional reference (4)


<1> CBA Res Rep 20 Gaz of Mes Sites in Eng and Wales 1977 154 (JJ Wymer) (OS Card Reference). SKE38890.

<2> Ant J 1938 397-400 ( J P T Burchell) (OS Card Reference). SKE33149.

<3> Arch Cant 74 1960 192-193 (G Sieveking) (OS Card Reference). SKE35561.

<4> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1995 Feb, South Thames-Side Development Route IV (Unpublished document). SWX6940.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: CBA Res Rep 20 Gaz of Mes Sites in Eng and Wales 1977 154 (JJ Wymer).
<2>XYOS Card Reference: Ant J 1938 397-400 ( J P T Burchell). [Mapped feature: #17742 Finds, ]
<3>OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 74 1960 192-193 (G Sieveking).
<4>Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1995 Feb. South Thames-Side Development Route IV.