Castle Hill (formerly Eastern Quarry): Area E5, Boyn Hill terrace valley-side bank with abundant Palaeolithic handaxes and debitage on palaeo-landsurfaces (now deeply buried), found during evaluation in 2005 in advance of the Castle Hill housing development. Very rich artefact recovery from deeply-buried presumed palaeo-landsurfaces in test pits 13.2, 14.1 and 14.3 in this area. From these three test pits, the combined totals of artefacts are: 19 handaxes, 7 flake-tools and more than 1500 flakes. All of the material is in mint condition, suggesting an undisturbed occupation/activity site above the banks of the river that would have been a short distance to the north. The artefact-rich horizons occurred between 29m and 31m OD. Artefact counts represent the combined material from these test pits, as assessed for the evaluation report (1). The area of these finds was subsequently avoided for development, and is now sealed below made-up deposits and landscaped parkland.

CgMs, 2008, Weldon, Castle Hill, Swanscombe (Ebbsfleet), Kent Report On A Targeted Archaeological (PALAEOLITHIC) Test Pit Evaluation South Of Area B (Unpublished document). SKE52263.

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2006, Eastern Quarry (Area B and Additional Areas) Swanscombe, Kent: Archaeological Investigations. (Unpublished document). SKE32274.