Findspot record TR 06 SW 30 - Flint debitage (probably Palaeolithic), vicinity of Ospringe

Summary

Large flint blades, flakes, probably of Upper Palaeolithic date, some worked flakes with unusually large bulbs of percussion from Ospringe, Kent. Levallois flakes found in a pit in front of Union House, Ospringe, in an area of Head Gravel geology.

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Grid reference TR 00 61 (point) Approximate
Map sheet TR06SW
County KENT
District SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT

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Antiquities in the British Museum from the Garraway Rice collection include some large blades, worked (and/or abraded) into crude points (1, 2, 3, 4). Roe (3) speculated might be from gravel pit north of Union workhouse at TR 000090 61425, but no evidence for this and numerous other brickearth and gravel pits in area. Could be a broad bade early Middle Palaeolithic industry similar to Crayford, a later Middle or early Upper Palaeolithic industry, or (most likely) a final Upper Palaeolithic Long Blade industry.


<1> Rice, G, 1911, Worked flakes from Ospringe, Kent (Article in serial). SKE29695.

<2> Anon, 1933, Notes: The Garraway Rice Collection (Article in serial). SKE29696.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p. 153 (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], S-1, no. 9 (p. 142) (Monograph). SWX6569.

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  • <1> Article in serial: Rice, G. 1911. Worked flakes from Ospringe, Kent.
  • <2> Article in serial: Anon. 1933. Notes: The Garraway Rice Collection.
  • <3>XY Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p. 153. [Mapped feature: #40457 find, ]
  • <4> Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-1, no. 9 (p. 142).

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: The Southern rivers Palaeolithic Project (EKE20337)

Record last edited

Nov 22 2021 11:43AM