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ID:SKE29699
Title:Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent.
Originator:Dewey H, Smith RA
Date:1925
Summary:[mentions numerous pits: Homersham's west and east pits, Ashenden's west and east pits, Dadd & Cooper's Hoades Wood pit, Gaskin's pit (=Vauxhall brickworks), Edwards' brickworks, Cozens & Son's St. Stephen's pit (=40-Acre pit)]

Associated Monuments

TR 15 NE 1128Edwards Brickworks (also known as St Stephen's Brick Works), Canterbury (Findspot) ()
TR 15 NW 1613Fresh condition ovate handaxes from base of brickearth at Cozens & Sons 40 Acre Pit, Canterbury (Monument) ()
TR 16 SE 9Homersham's West Pit, Sturry - abundant lithic remains from terrace gravel, including numerous handaxes (Monument) ()
TR 16 SE 245Homersham's West Pit, Sturry, new cutting - very numerous handaxes, three cores and numerous debitage, some possibly retouched into flake-tools (Monument) ()
TR 15 NE 1127Palaeolithic flint implements, found Gaskin's Pit, Vauxhall Brickworks, Canterbury (Monument) ()
TR 15 NE 1126Palaeolithic flint implements, found Vauxhall Brickworks, Canterbury (Monument) ()
TR 15 NE 22Palaeolithic flint implements, found Vauxhall Brickworks, cavalry barracks end, Canterbury (Monument) ()
TR 15 NW 40Palaeolithic handaxes Cozens & Sons 40 Acre Pit, Canterbury (Findspot) ()
TR 16 SE 247Sturry, Ashenden's Pits, West and East - quite numerous Palaeolithic handaxes, a Levallois core and a Levallois flake (Monument) ()
TR 16 SE 246Sturry, Homersham's East Pit - numerous Palaeolithic handaxe finds reported (Monument) ()
TR 16 SE 242Sturry, Palaeolithic handaxe from Homersham's pit behind Whatmer Hall (Findspot) ()
TR 16 SE 243Sturry, several handaxe and debitage finds from Hoath/Hoades Wood pit (Dadd/Neville/Cooper) (Findspot) ()
TR 16 SE 244Sturry, two Palaeolithic handaxes from Stonerocks pit (Findspot) ()