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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 1128
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Edwards Brickworks (also known as St Stephen's Brick Works), Canterbury

Summary

Edwards Brickworks (also known as St Stephen's Brick Works), Canterbury - possible source of some flint artefact finds attributed to "St. Stephen's Pit" about 1km to the west (this latter also known as 40 Acre Pit)

Grid Reference:TR 152 591
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Edwards Brickworks (also known as St Stephen's Brick Works, as shown on 1938 OS survey, 1:2500), Canterbury had c. 5m thickness of brickearth overlying c. 6m of gravel according Dewey & Smith (1, 2). No lithic artefacts are reliably known from the site, but it is possible source of some flint artefact finds attributed to "St. Stephen's Pit", which is generally taken to refer to another pit about 1km to the west (this latter also known as 40 Acre Pit), see TR 15 NW 40.


<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent., p. 134 (Article in serial). SKE29699.

<2> Smart JGO, Bisson G, Worssam BC,, 1966, Geology of the Country around Canterbury and Folkestone (Combined Memoir in Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheets 289, 305 and 306, New Series). Institute of Geological Sciences, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London., p. 238 (Monograph). SKE29705.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Dewey H, Smith RA. 1925. Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent.. Kent. Archaeologia 74: 117-136. p. 134.
<2>Monograph: Smart JGO, Bisson G, Worssam BC,. 1966. Geology of the Country around Canterbury and Folkestone (Combined Memoir in Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheets 289, 305 and 306, New Series). Institute of Geological Sciences, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.. p. 238.