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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 84 SE 252 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Possible Mesolithic seasonal encampment, Smarden |
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Summary
Flint working debris from terrace river gravels suggests a Mesolithic seasonal encmapment, Hamden, Smarden
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8957 4101 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ84SE |
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| Parish: | SMARDEN, ASHFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Full description
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Fieldwalking by Smarden Local History Society discovered a flint scatter comprising of Mesolithic blades, scrapers, awls, borers, and waste flakes. Originated from terrace river gravels, suggsting a seasonal encampment near the river. (1)
<1> Neil Aldridge, 2009, Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group (Unpublished document). SKE16635.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Neil Aldridge. 2009. Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group. |
