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Monument details

Summary

A Mesolithic Thames pick, Neolithic axe fragment and scrapers were found in 1921, in an area where the playing fields for Deal County Secondary School exist.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 10000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

• AXE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
• AXE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full description

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TR 37235198. Flint implements of Thames pick type, a portion of a celt and scrapers were found in July 1921 during brickearth digging in G Dennes pit, Mill Road, Deal. On display in Deal Castle Museum from this pit, which is now laid out as playing fields for Deal County Secondary School, are three scrapers of mid-Ne date and a Thames pick. (Part of the Deal Town Hall Collection). (1)

Additional Info (2-5)

<1> F1 ASP 22-JUL-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42235.

<2> Maidstone Museum Arch Gazetteer in progress (Anon) undated (OS Card Reference). SKE46424.

<3> Maidstone Museum pte 6" (Anon) undated (OS Card Reference). SKE46482.

<4> Field report for monument TR 35 SE 35 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6096.

<5> Oxford Archaeological Unit, 1996, Proposed Supermarket Development, West Street, Deal, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE7108.

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