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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 285 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Worked flint assemblage Springhead Evaluation, Gravesend, Kent |
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Summary
A small Mesolithic/Neolithic worked flint assemblage, comprising of a number of tools and a hammerstone collected from trenches across the evaluation. Location accurate to 20m based on available information
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6166 7299 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
Full description
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A small, mostly undiagnostic collection of worked flint from the 83 evaluation trenches. Three possible retouched pieces (from trial trenches 1168, 1183 and 1346), one hammerstone (TT 1329), one possible microburin (TT 1168), one bifacially worked core tool (TT 1173) and one single platform core ( TT1335) . The possible microburin, bifacially worked core tool and single platform core are likely to be mesolithic/neolithic [1].
Location accurate to 20m based on available information
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1997, Archaeological Evaluation at Springhead (ARC SPH95/STP 97), Kent, Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Environmental Statement Route Window 13. Final Fieldwork Report. (Unpublished document). SKE12218.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1997. Archaeological Evaluation at Springhead (ARC SPH95/STP 97), Kent, Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Environmental Statement Route Window 13. Final Fieldwork Report.. |
