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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 67 SW 286
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Palaeolithic Levallois core and flakes, found during pre-HS1 works in the Ebbsfleet Valley

Summary

During evaluation work on a section of the Channel Tunnel Rail-link in 1997 and 2001, in an area around grid reference TQ 61607410, Palaeolithic artefacts were found. These were waste flakes, a long blade and four cores, including a Mousterian core and a frost damaged Mousterian/Levalloisian core.

Grid Reference:	TQ 61605 74110
Map Sheet:	TQ67SW
Parish:	SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC? (at some time))

Associated Finds

LEVALLOIS CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
LEVALLOIS FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Protected Status:	Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Site of a Roman villa revealed by excavations. A bath building with moasics was also excavated. Some medieval features and possible prehistoric pits also located within this area.

Full description

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During evaluation work on a section of the Channel Tunnel Rail-link, in an area around grid reference TQ 61607410 palaeolithic flints and cores were found. These were a Mousterian core, a frost damaged Mousterian/Levalloisian core and two large flakes. This area has produced palaeolithic items found in 1992 and 1996. See (TQ 67 SW 61).(1-3)

Further middle palaeolithic (Levalloisian) artefacts were discovered during evlauation work in 2001. The finds were mainly concerntrated arourd the southern edge of the site (centred TQ61467411) The finds, including flakes, a blade and probable cores, had only been moved a short distance by colluvial/solifluction process (gradual movement over time down the valley). There is potential for the recovery of undisturbed horizons with the deposits in this area.(4)

<1> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1997, The Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet, Kent: ARC EFT 97: Archaeological Evaluation: Volume 1 Report (Unpublished document). SKE12220.

<2> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1997, The Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet Kent, ARC EFT 97: Archaeological Evalaution: Volume 2 Appendices (Unpublished document). SKE12221.

<3> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1997, The Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet, Kent: ARC EFT 97: Archaeological Evaluation: Volume 3 Figures and Plates (Unpublished document). SKE12222.

<4> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 2001, Channel Tunnel Rail Link Ebbsfleet Sports Ground, Northfleet, ARC ESG00, Phase 2 Evaluation Archaeological Works Fieldwork Report Final (Unpublished document). SKE12227.

<5> Oxford Archaeology, 2003, Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement (Unpublished document). Ske12256.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1997. The Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet, Kent: ARC EFT 97: Archaeological Evaluation: Volume 1 Report.
<2>	Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1997. The Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet Kent, ARC EFT 97: Archaeological Evalaution: Volume 2 Appendices.
<3>	Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1997. The Ebbsfleet Valley, Northfleet, Kent: ARC EFT 97: Archaeological Evaluation: Volume 3 Figures and Plates.
<4>	Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 2001. Channel Tunnel Rail Link Ebbsfleet Sports Ground, Northfleet, ARC ESG00, Phase 2 Evaluation Archaeological Works Fieldwork Report Final.
<5>	Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2003. Ebbsfleet Valley Detailed Mitigation Works, Northfleet, Kent: Interim Statement.