Accession No

2002.1 D


Description

Gravel/soil samples.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Somersham; Somersham Gravel Quarry


Period

Palaeolithic Middle Palaeolithic


Source

West.Professor.Richard.G.


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

2002.1 D; MAA: 2002.1 D


Cultural Affliation


Material

Gravel; Sand


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): West, R.G. et al. 1999. 'Late and Middle Pleistocene Deposits at Somersham, Cambridgeshire, UK: A Model for Reconstructing Fluvial/Estuarine Depositional Environments'. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 18. pp. 1247-1314.
Event Date 22/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn


Description (CMS Description)
Gravel/soil samples.
Event Date 22/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn


Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Wymer, J.J. and R.G. West. 2001. 'A Levallois Flake from Somersham, Cambridgeshire'. Lithics, vol. 22. pp. 11-12, fig. 1
Event Date 22/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn


Context (CMS Context)
Ordnance Survey map reference TL 375800.
Brought in by J.J. Wymer on behalf of the donor; Professor Richard. G. West (previously at Cambridge).
Three soil samples were taken at the time the flake (A) was found, B is labelled: "Somersham, Cambs. gravel concretion removed from the dorsal face of large Levallois flake", C is labelled: "Somersham, Cambs. silt removed from ventral face of large Levallois flake", D is not labelled.
Event Date 22/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn


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