Neolithic Occupation Sites in East Kent

G. C. Dunning

doi:10.1017/S0003581500062843

Neolithic Occupation Sites in East Kent

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G. C. Dunning

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The purpose of this paper is to place on record several discoveries of Neolithic pottery and flint implements which have been made in East Kent during the past seventy years. The preservation of most of the pottery is due to our late Fellow Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing of Upper Deal, who also possessed a manuscript notebook kept by the late Captain C. F. Newington giving details of the finds. Mr. Stebbing also conducted a rescue excavation of the pit at Ramsgate, and kept the fragments of pot and parts of two human skulls. On the other hand, the bulk of the flint implements had been given on various occasions to the Corporation of Deal, and formed part of a collection of local antiquities housed in the Town Hall at Deal.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1966 , pp. 1 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500062843 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1966

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^{page 1 note 1} A brief note on the find was published in Arch. Cant. xxix (1911), p. lxxxiii.

^{page 2 note 1} 6 inch O.S. Kent, LVIII, N.E.

^{page 4 note 1} e.g. at Wingham, Arch. Cant., lxxiv, 66, fig. 3, 9.

^{page 4 note 2} Smith, Isobel F., ‘Note on the Distribution of Neolithic storage-pits’, Proc. Prehist. Soc. xxx (1964), 367–81Google Scholar.

^{page 4 note 3} Piggott's forms (Arch. Journ. lxxxviii, 75, fig. 1) are referred to where possible in this paper in order to save longer descriptions.

^{page 5 note 1} 6 inch O.S. Kent, LVIII, N.E.

^{page 7 note 1} Isobel F. Smith, Windmill Hill and Avebury: Excavations by Alexander Keiller, 1925–39 (1965), p. 49, figs. 15–16.

^{page 7 note 2} Nos. 5784, 5785, 5856, and 5862.

^{page 7 note 3} 6 inch O.S. Kent, LVIII, N.E.

^{page 7 note 4} H. J. Osborne White, The Geology of the Country near Ramsgate and Dover, p. 64 (Memoir of the Geological Survey, 1928). See also W. P. D. Stebbing, The Invader's Shore (1937), p. 12.

^{page 8 note 1} 6 inch O.S. Kent, LVIII, S.E.

^{page 8 note 2} I. F. Smith, op. cit., p. 242, fig. 80, F 205.

^{page 8 note 3} 6 inch O.S. Kent, XXXVII, N.E.

^{page 9 note 1} O.S. Plan TR 3665 S.E. (scale 1:1250).

^{page 9 note 2} Arch. Cant. lxiv, 150–1.

^{page 10 note 1} A scale model of the pit and the lower burial is exhibited in Deal Castle Museum.

^{page 11 note 1} Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, vi, 30.

^{page 11 note 2} Piggott, Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles (1954), p. 48.

^{page 11 note 3} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxv, 153, fig. 5.

^{page 11 note 4} Proc. Prehist. Soc. xxx, 352, fig. 1.

^{page 11 note 5} Registry no. 1956, 10–8, 2–6, and unregistered sherds.

^{page 11 note 6} 6 inch O.S. Kent, LXXV, N.W.

^{page 13 note 1} The finds will be deposited in the Royal Museum, Canterbury.

^{page 13 note 2} 6 inch O.S. Kent, XXXVI, S.E.

^{page 13 note 3} The coast line of East Kent in prehistoric times is shown on the map (based on Arch. Cant., xxxix, 96, fig. 1), but no attempt has been made to indicate the coastal changes elsewhere in Kent.

^{page 14 note 1} Wooldridge, S. W. and Linton, D. L., ‘The Loam-Terrains of Southeast England’, Antiquity, vii (1933). 297Google Scholar.

^{page 14 note 2} It is worth noting that the only other settlement of the Windmill Hill culture on brick-earth as such has recently been published; I. F. Smith and J. J. Wymer, ‘The Treacher Collection of Prehistoric Artifacts from Marlow’, Records of Bucks, xvii, 286–95.

^{page 15 note 1} R. E. M. Wheeler, Maiden Castle, Dorset (1943), P. 146, fig. 27, 19 and fig. 29, 43.

^{page 15 note 2} Arch. Journ. lxxxviii, 138, fig. 21.

^{page 15 note 3} I. F. Smith, op. cit., p. 52, fig. 25, P 148–9 and P 151–2.

^{page 15 note 4} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxvii, 79, fig. 4.

^{page 16 note 1} Arch. Cant., lxxiv, 62, fig. 3, 4–5 and 7.

^{page 16 note 2} Ibid., fig. 3, 6 and also nos. 4 and 7.

^{page 16 note 3} Ibid., lxxvi, 40, fig. 11, 1.

^{page 16 note 4} I. F. Smith, op. cit., p. 46, fig. 12, P 164, etc.

^{page 17 note 1} Proc. Prehist. Soc. ii (1936), 188, fig. 2, 7.

^{page 17 note 2} Ibid., xxvi, 239, fig. 21, P 23–26.

^{page 17 note 3} Rep. Univ. London Inst. Archaeology, x (1954), 28, fig. 2, 2–3.

^{page 17 note 4} Sussex Arch. Coll. lxxi, 70, pls. ix–x, 21, 23 and 30; Antiq. Journ. xiv, 114, figs. 5, 23 and 24.

^{page 17 note 5} I. F. Smith, op. cit., p. 51, fig. 24, P 146.

^{page 17 note 6} Arch. Cant., lxiv, 150.

^{page 17 note 7} Antiq. Journ. xvi, 469.

^{page 17 note 8} No. 14240 in the Hazzledine Warren Collection in the British Museum.

^{page 18 note 1} Arch. Cant., lxxiv, 48–57.

^{page 21 note 1} Piggott, Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles, pp. 358–9, fig. 62, 10 and 12.

^{page 21 note 2} Antiq. Journ. xvi, 468, pl. LXXXVIII, I.

^{page 21 note 3} Archaeologia, lxxi, 117, pl. v, 3–5.

^{page 21 note 4} I am not aware of a single axe of imported igneous rock from the Deal brick-earth. The nearest is a greenstone axe found at Richborough.

^{page 21 note 5} e.g. nos. 5606, 5863, 5866, 5884, 6401, 6402, 6432, 6481, and 6550.

^{page 22 note 1} Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1936, p. 204, pl. XLII.

^{page 22 note 2} I. F. Smith, op. cit., p. 105.

^{page 22 note 3} Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., lxxxii, 234.

^{page 22 note 4} I. F. Smith, op. cit., p. 91, fig. 39, F 23–26.

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