Powdermill Lane, Dartford: flint flake from Last Glacial deposits with palaeo-envionmental remains - molluscs, ostracods and small vertebrates. During an evaluation in February 2001 a number of test pits were dug for palaeolithic deposits (1). Deposits were present in all the pits which did not reach the base of the deposits. Pleistocene units are broadly horizontal, and have been truncated by the modern ground surface which slopes down west to east. A single flint flake was found within the fine-grained clay-silt in TP 10. It was the broken distal end of a blade and was unpatinated and in fairly "fresh condition". No further lithic finds in subsequent watching brief but sampling of the clay-silt led to recovery of molluscs, ostracods and small vertebrates (2).

Uncertain findspot of 42 Lower Palaeolithic handaxes, two flakes and one Levallois flake, probably from multiple sites (3-4)

<1> Oxford Archaeology, 2001, Land Adjacent to Powdermill Lane & Hawley Road, Dartford, Kent: Archaeological Evaluation Report (Unpublished document). SKE11957.

<2> Oxford Archaeology, 2002, Land Adjacent to Powdermill Lane & Hawley Road, Dartford, Kent: Post Excavation Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE11958.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites (Monograph). SWX6570.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.