Numerous handaxes were found in/around the brickearth and gravel pit comples known as Forty Acres Pit or St Stephen's Pit, worked by Cozens and Son in the earlier 20th C (1, 2, 3, 4). The main pit lies immediately to the west of the branch railway line to Whitstable, but there was also a smaller and older pit immediately to the east of the line. Handaxes from the site include a large and finely-made ficron (5) and a bout coupe handaxe (6). NB - this site is not the same as "St Stephen's Brick Works" at TR 15300 59050, see OS mapping of 1930s, which was also known as "Edwards' Brickworks" according Dewey & Smith (1 - p 134).

<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent., pp. 135-136 (Article in serial). SKE29699.

<2> F1 ASP 01-FEB-65 (OS Card Reference). SKE41866.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p. 142 (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-4.27, p 146 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<5> Bowes, A, 1928, Palaeoliths found in England (Article in serial). SKE29707.

<6> Tyldesley JA, 1987, The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford., p. 68 (Bibliographic reference). SKE29688.