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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 NW 1021 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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| Name: | Organic clay exposure by Broadness saltmarsh |
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Summary
A grey-brown organic clay exposure by Broadness saltmarsh, has abraded roundwood pieces, probably roots, and animal bone embedded in it.
Location accurate to 2m based on available information
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60212 76289 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67NW |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- NATURAL FEATURE (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC? to 2351 BC?)
Full description
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A grey-brown organic clay exposure extending as a small sea cliff for hundreds of metres along the shore. It has abraded roundwood, probably roots, within it. It also has animal bone embedded in it. (1)
Period amended to Mesolithic ot Neolithic on advice from Francis Wenban-Smith that it was unlikely to be palaeolithic in date.
Location accurate to 2m based on available information
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
