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. This HER relates specifically to report (1) of several large, sharp and unabraded ovate implements recovered by Ince from base of brickearth, at its basal junction with the underlying gravel bed (2, 3).

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

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> 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.