An Association of Thin Butted Celts with Leaf-Shaped Arrowheads at Drow Hill, Capstone North, Kent

Extract

Surface finds are seldom hailed by the student of prehistory with enthusiasm, and it must be confessed that as dating material such finds prove themselves unreliable. There are however, certain exceptions to this general rule, and the finds I am relating below, fall, I submit, under this last category. In point of fact when flakes, implements, cores and calcined flint are yearly brought to the surface in great quantities by the plough over one small area, the more formal objections to surface finds largely disappear.