Findspot record TQ 57 SW 273 - Miskin Road, Dartford, worked Palaeolithic flints

Miskin Road, Dartford, worked Palaeolithic flints - two of them possibly flake-tools, the other waste debitage; seen by Roe in Dartford Museum (1) and then included in SRPP (2)

An evaluation carried out in 2003 identified a number of artefacts including flakes and a scraper-type implement. Several flakes may have originated from the manufacture of handaxe(s). Some of the artefacts were assigned a Pleistocene date for their manufacture, whilst others were dated to the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic. All the artefacts showed evidence (edge chipping and rounding) for having been transported in a fluvial context, such as a river, if only for a short distance. (3, 4)

<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 149 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 3.21 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<3> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2004, The results of an archaeological evaluation of land at North West Kent College, Miskin Road, Dartford, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16692.

<4> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2019, Archaeological Desk-based Assessment In Relation To The Proposed Development At West Hill Primary Academy, Dartford Road, Dartford, Kent. (Unpublished document). SKE56573.