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Monument details

Summary

Evaluation and mitigation fieldwork carried out at Ingress Abbey to investigate pleistocene deposits produced a Palaeolithic flint assemblage. Although slightly disturbed/transported, this assemblage represents evidence of early human activity at the time of the formation of the deposits.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC (at some time))

Associated Finds

• DEBITAGE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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The high ground at the southern side of the development area at Ingress Abbey contains the northern edge of the Boyn Hill/Orsett Heath Pleistocene formation. Consequently, eight evaluation test pits were dug into suspected Pleistocene deposits at the south western corner of the site. Palaeolithic flint flakes were found in two test pits, two (in TP3) in gravels interpreted as fluvial gravels of Boyn Hill terrace, and two in mixed sand/gravel lower down the slope in TP 4 (1). Monitoring in later 1999 led to the recovery of 4 further flakes from the terrace gravels near TP3 (2, 3).

<1> AOC Archaeology Group, 1999, An Archaeological Evaluation at Ingress Abbey, London Road, Greenhithe, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12252.

<2> AOC Archaeology Group, 1999, Excavations at Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe. Assessment Report (Palaeolithic) (Unpublished document). SKE12253.

<3> AOC Archaeology Group, 2004, Results Of Archaeological Excavation And Recording At Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12239.

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