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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 67 SW 322
Type of record:Monument
Name:Palaeolithic Flint Finds, Springhead, Northfleet

Summary

Two small Palaeolithic flint flakes from TPs 1121 and 1122.

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.


Grid Reference:TQ 6196 7275
Map Sheet:TQ67SW
Parish:GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Two small palaeolithic flint flakes. Technologically undiagnostic. They show little evidence of fluvial movement, found in fluvial gravel in southern part of site, TPs 1121 and 1122 (1)

1121 - Small hardhammer flake
1122 - Small elongated flake, possibly from blade manufacture

Location accurate to 2m based on available information.


<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2004, Springhead Quarter Ebbsfleet, Kent: Archaeological Evaluation Report (Unpublished document). SKE12271.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2004. Springhead Quarter Ebbsfleet, Kent: Archaeological Evaluation Report.