Source/Archive record (Monograph) SKE53196 - The Ebbsfleet Elephant, Excavations at Southfleet Road, Swanscombe, in advance of High Speed 1, 2003-4

Title The Ebbsfleet Elephant, Excavations at Southfleet Road, Swanscombe, in advance of High Speed 1, 2003-4
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2013
International Standard Book Number 978-0-904220-73-5

Abstract/Summary

This monograph provides the full account of the discovery, excavation and subsequent analysis of remains from a sequence of rich archaeological horizons found late in the construction programme and dating to early in the Palaeolithic period, associated with the Hoxnian interglacial between approximately 425,000 and 375,000 years ago. The highlight of this work was the identification of the remains of the carcass of an extinct straighttusked elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus, surrounded by the undisturbed scatter of flint tools used for its butchery, made and abandoned at the spot.

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Description

This book is one of a series of monographs by Oxford Archaeology (OA) This publication has been generously funded by High Speed 1 Prepared for publication by Rebecca Nicholson, Oxford Archaeology Published by Oxford Archaeology © 2013 Oxford Archaeology Ltd ISBN: 978-0-904220-73-5

Location

Kent County Council Heritage 2019/271

Referenced Monuments (11)

  • Flint artefact scatter close to the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument)
  • Flint artefact scatter close to the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument)
  • Numerous Palaeolithic handaxes (and other flint artefacts) from gravel overlying the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument)
  • Numerous Palaeolithic handaxes (and other flint artefacts) from gravel overlying the Southfleet Road "Ebbsfleet elephant" site (Monument)
  • One (very fine) Palaeolithic handaxe from Ebbsfleet, Station Quarter South, TP 25 (Findspot)
  • Palaeolithic (Clactonian) elephant butchery site, Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet (Monument)
  • Palaeolithic (Clactonian) elephant butchery site, Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet (Monument)
  • Palaeolithic ostracod and mollusc remains from dried lake-bed sediments near the HS1 Ebbsfleet elephant site (Pleistocene Environmental Findspot)
  • Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot)
  • Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot)
  • Surface finds of one handaxe and some debitage from sloping cut forming a brickearth bank to north of HS1 elephant butchery site (Findspot)

Referenced Events (23)

  • EKE18313 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Transect 1
  • EKE18314 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Transect 2
  • EKE18315 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Transect 3
  • EKE18309 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench A
  • EKE18310 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench B
  • EKE18311 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench C
  • EKE18312 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench D
  • EKE18316 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench I
  • EKE18317 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench II
  • EKE18318 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench III
  • EKE18319 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench IV
  • EKE18324 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench IX
  • EKE18320 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench V
  • EKE18321 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench VI
  • EKE18322 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench VII
  • EKE18323 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench VIII
  • EKE18325 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench X
  • EKE18326 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench XI
  • EKE18327 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench XII
  • EKE18328 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench XIII
  • EKE18329 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench XIV
  • EKE18330 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet - Trench XV
  • EKE10414 The Clactonian Elephant Butchery Site, Excavation at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet

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Feb 25 2021 10:49AM