A day of research in the British Museum (Frank's House). Lower Palaeolithic handaxes from the Sturry pits, ex Herne Bay Museum collection.
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Looking for the elusive lower Palaeolithic in Qatar's southern desert, distinguishing thermaly fractured chert from lithic scatters in open air sites is challenging. Finding a huge unipolar prismatic core and struck flakes was pretty conclusive evidence. Area previously studied by the PADMAC group.

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This paper reviews Quaternary sites in southern England, including a network of archaeologically rich sites of the Kentish Stour at Fordwich Pit, Sturry Gravel Pits, Wear Farm Pit, Chislet and Bishopstone to Reculver Cliffs

I spent yesterday trying to recreate a photograph of the 1912 geologists' associations' visit to the Reculver cliff's