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Dawley, Middlesex
Artefact no 2205 , Small crude hand-axe made on flake, very rolled and ochrous. On gravel thrown-up in Sabey's Pit near Dawley.
Artefact no 2206 , Sharp, neat flake, slightly-stained on pile of 'rejects' in Stockley Pit.
The brick-earth in Sabey's pit near Dawley varies in the thickness and stratification but untidy sections and throw-ups conceal intervening areas. To the North it is about 4' thick and even, beneath the gravel may be contorted. To the South there is a dark layer of flints about 6" thick in a dirty clay between the brick-earth and gravel. Remains of an ancient land surface?