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Preliminary Notice: Types of Clactonian Implements at Swanscombe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

R. H. Chandler
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Since my paper on the Clactonian Industry at Swanscombe was read in 1929, I have obtained many more implements from Barnfield Pit (the one there described) and also a large collection from Rickson's Farm Pit.

The lower gravel at Rickson's Farm Pit has yielded the same culture as the lower gravel in Barnneld Pit, and it underlies a shell-bed containing I heodoxus cantianus (Ken. and B. B. Wood.), which is succeeded by a gravel containing well finished St. Acheul hand-axes in both places. The Acheulian tools from Rickson's Farm Pit differ somewhat from those obtained in Barnfield Pit in that there are fewer of the pear-shaped, pointed implements. The usual type in the former pit is thinner, more ovate, and frequently with a pronounced ‘twist’ of the reversed S kind.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , 1932 , pp. 377 - 378
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1932

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References

page 377 note 1 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. E. Anglia, Vol. vi., pp. 79–116 Google Scholar.

page 377 note 2 Details of this section, records of discoveries of Clactonian implements subsequent to 1929 and from various parts of the world are given in Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. xliii., pt. 1.

page 377 note 3 About 150 implements and 300 flakes.

page 378 note 1 P.P.S.E.A., Vol. ii., pp. 240–248 Google Scholar.