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Barnfield Pit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (224 words) |
 | In 1935 and 1936 work at Barnfield Pit produced a few 250,000-year-old fossilised skull fragments that were hailed as the remains of Swanscombe Man, and still are, despite being resexed as the remains of a woman. |
| The remains were in the lower middle terrace gravels at a depth of almost 8m beneath the surface. |
| Excavations were carried out by Dr. John d'Arcy Waechter between 1968-72 which revealed the extent of the former shoreline that the bones were found on along with further animal bone and flint tool examples. |
| Archaeology: The Lower Palaeolithic Age | British History Online (6124 words) |
| From the evidence provided by the Barnfield Pit sequence, it is clear that during the early part of the Mindel/Riss Interglacial there was a Clactonian industry, followed by a Middle Acheulian, which in turn was followed by a later stage of Acheulian, but all three within the same Interglacial. |
| In some pits, for example Pipkin's at West Drayton, the junction between the solifluction and the brickearth is very irregular, and clearly the solifluction deposit was subjected to considerable erosion before the deposition of the brickearth. |
| In the Brown's Orchard pits, at a surface level of 24-29 ft. there were sands and gravels overlaid by brickearth, the whole resting on the London Clay. |
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