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Wessex Archaeology
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Old Sarum Park
Salisbury
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UK
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Swanscombe, Kent, 30/1/1954
Artefact no 1637 , Mint well-flaked, small (3¾") hand axe. Unstained. In current bedded sand just above sandy gravel. 4' 6" above (estimated) lower loam.
Artefact no 1638 , Small hand-axe (2¾") fashioned from flake of marbled-flint. Ochreous staining. Lying flat in the heavily stained layer about 5' 6" above lower-loam, in association with many flakes and a few bone fragments.
(C2) cont. Flakes extremely prolific at junction, three actually found together, two touching, one an inch away. None conjoinable.
(D) Current-bedded sand almost stoneless.
(E) Red staining at base of excavation. Skull layer?
About 2½ yards of undisturbed deposits examined. Seventy flakes found in situ!