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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 1256 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Prehistoric occupation level near the Church of St Martin Le Grand, Dover |
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Summary
A Prehistoric occupation layer was identified during excavations near the Church of St. Martin Le Grand in 1955 (location accurate to the nearest 2m based on available information).
| Grid Reference: | TR 31904 41436 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- OCCUPATION LAYER (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
Associated Finds
- WORKED FLINT (Late Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 7000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
Full description
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On top of a surface interpreted as being the historic bank of the Dour estuary, was a prehistoric occupation layer of uncertain date continuing into a peaty layer at the base of the slope. Numerous pieces of worked flint were located within this layer including a horseshoe scraper made on a struck flake of a black flint and a grey flake side scraper with a prominent bulb of percussion. There was no clear diagnostic features about this collection. There is some iron staining, but patina does not vary so much as to indicated a mixture of industries. One of the scrapers could be Mesolithic but would be more at home in a Neolithic context, or even later. There is not sufficient evidence of scale flaking, however, to indicate a post Neolithic date. (1)
<1> Philip A. Rahtz, 1958, Archaeologia Cantiana, Dover: Stembrook and St. Martin Le Grand. Vol. 72 (Article in serial). SKE31641.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Philip A. Rahtz. 1958. Archaeologia Cantiana, Dover: Stembrook and St. Martin Le Grand. Vol. 72. Vol. 72, pp 111-117. |
