Preliminary Notice: Types of Clactonian Implements at Swanscombe

Chandler, Raymond

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“…At the base is the Lower Gravel, resting on Thanet Sand at a bench level of 75 feet O.D. This Lower Gravel contains a prolific Clactonian flint industry (Chandler, 1929(Chandler, , 1931 typified by small and large chopper-cores, mainly of a rough biconical form, and the associated flakes many of which are trimmed by secondary working into scrapers, borers, hollow scrapers and other non-specialized tool forms. The cores were originally thought to be waste pieces but it is certain that the great majority were intended as tools.…”

Section: The Lower Palaeolithic Successionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The cores were originally thought to be waste pieces but it is certain that the great majority were intended as tools. Hazzledine Warren (1951) came to this conclusion, while Chandler (1931) referred to some of the primitive tools from the Lower Gravel at Swanscombe as rough 'hand-axes' (p. 318).…”

Section: The Lower Palaeolithic Successionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…rough-out for hand-axe' from the Lower Gravel at Swanscombe. In his later classification of Clactonian implements from Barnfield and Rickson's pits, Swanscombe (Chandler, 1931) there is a separate category for ' Rough "hand-axes" '. Warren in his interpretation of the industry from the type site at Clacton-on-Sea (1951) classifies some of the chopper-cores as 'pointed nodule-tools' or 'proto-bouchers'.…”

Section: -Joo' Lower Gravel Trainmentioning

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The Lower Palaeolithic Succession in the Thames Valley and the date of the Ancient Channel between Caversham and Henley, Oxon

Wymer

1961

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The reopening of the gravel pit at Highlands Farm, Henley (742813) in the ancient channel of the Thames between Caversham and Henley in 1955 has afforded an opportunity for studying the Palaeolithic contents of the gravel in detail. A short report was presented to the Society in 1956 after some initial observations, the most important of which was that the majority of the flint implements found were of Clactonian type (Wymer, 1956). In the five years since several hundred hand-axes and cores and many thousands of flakes have been recorded from this pit, many of them in situ, collected in the preparation of witness sections. The Clactonian has still been found to be the most abundant flint industry, but several types of hand-axes have occurred, some very highly finished and seemingly at variance with the early date assigned to the ancient channel on geological grounds.The collection of material in situ has shown conclusively that all the types of flint artifacts found at Highlands occur at all levels; nowhere is one particular type stratified in relationship to another. It is only by comparing the finds with those made at other sites in the Thames Valley that justification can be found for claiming that more than one industry is represented. The gravel filling of the ancient channel resembles the majority of Lower Palaeolithic sites in the Thames Valley, and elsewhere in Britain: several flint industries are jumbled indiscriminately together. Many tens of thousands of years may divide the individual artifacts within the gravel, but there is no stratigraphical evidence to show it.

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Section: The Lower Palaeolithic Successionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Lower Palaeolithic Successionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: -Joo' Lower Gravel Trainmentioning

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