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Some Flat-Based Celts from Kent and Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

Henry Dewey
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The following paper describes a number of celts that were found lying on the surface in several parts of North Kent and in Dorset.

They seldom occurred alone, but among numerous implements of other forms, in situations that suggest occupation sites of early peoples. During parts of several successive years the author examined the surface features of the Chalk Downs, and the contiguous belt of country to the north, formed by the Tertiary Beds, that lies between the valley of the Mole and that of the Medway. This work formed part of the official survey of the area, but during the examination the occurrence of any flint-implements was carefully recorded and the precise location given. It soon became obvious that the distribution of the implements was by no means general over the surface, but definitely restricted to certain sites where they were abundant, with wide intervening tracts almost destitute of them. This fact was so remarkable that the question arose, naturally, if the sites had been chosen deliberately by early man, and, if so, what reasons had led to this selection.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , 1920 , pp. 267 - 276
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1920

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page 270 note ‡ See Reid, C., op. cit.

page 271 note * Dewey, Henry, “Surface Changes since the Palæolithic Period in Kent and Surrey”, Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, Vol. II., Part 1, pp. 107–116Google Scholar.

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