Pleistocene Environmental Findspot record TR 23 NW 814 - PEFS - Fossiliferous brickearth at Mr Gambrill's Brick-pit, behind Sandfield Villas

Summary

Fossiliferous brickearth at Mr Gambrill's Brick-pit, behind Sandfield Villas

Location

Grid reference TR 2251 3651 (point)
Map sheet TR23NW
Civil Parish FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT
County KENT
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Fragments of horse bone recovered from gravelly trails towards base of brickearth at Mr Gambrill's Brick-pit "at back of Sandfield Villas" (1). Precise location is uncertain but Sandfield House and cottages were, prior to the 1870s, north of the railway in vicinity of Palmerston Cottages and Ship Lane. Uncertain whether this locality is the same pit described as "Mr Gambrill's pit half a mile NW of The Bayle" (see KHCP4_M_13) (1).


<1> Mackie SJ, 1851, On a deposit at Folkestone containing bones of mammalia, pp261-262 (Article in serial). SKE29877.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Article in serial: Mackie SJ. 1851. On a deposit at Folkestone containing bones of mammalia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 7: 257-262.. pp261-262.

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jan 16 2023 2:20PM