Research Catalog

Title

Excavations at Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, 1968-72 / edited by Bernard Conway, John McNabb and Nick Ashton ; illustrations by Phil Dean.

Publication

London : Dept. of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Conway, Bernard.
• McNabb, John
• Ashton, Nick.
• British Museum. Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities.

Description

vii, 266 p. : ill., maps, plans, port.; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional paper ; 94

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) no. 94.

Subject

• From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Swanscombe Region
• Paleolithic period > Swanscombe Region
• Paleontology > Pleistocene
• Paleontology > Swanscombe Region
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Swanscombe Region
• Barnfield Pit Site (England)
• Swanscombe Region (England) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 255-266.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Bernard Conway, John McNabb and Nick Ashton -- A history of quarrying in the Swanscombe area / Bernard Conway -- An historical perspective on geological research at Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe / Bernard Conway -- Through the looking-glass : an historical perspective on archaeological research at Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, ca. 1900-1964 / John McNabb -- The description of the Waechter excavations, 1968-72 / Nick Ashton and John McNabb -- The geology outside the National Nature Reserve, 1968-72 / Bernard Conway -- The geology inside the National Nature Reserve, 1968-72 / Bernard Conway -- The stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene deposits of Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe / Bernard Conway -- The avifaunal remains / Steven Parry -- The ichthyofauna from the Waechter excavations, Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe / Brian Irving.
• The mammalian fauna from the Waechter excavations, Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe / Danielle Schreve -- Comments on the mammalian remains from Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe / Andrew Currant -- The footprint surfaces at Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, and The results of analysis of a potential footprint / Peter Davies and Alan Walker -- The ostracod fauna from the Weachter excavations / Eric Robinson -- The palynological studies from the Waechter excavations / Richard Hubbard -- The flint industries from the Waechter excavations / Nick Ashton and John McNabb -- Summary / Bernard Conway, John McNabb and Nick Ashton -- Methodology of flint analysis / Nick Ashton and John McNabb -- An additional note on the stratigraphy of the Barnfield deposits / by A.T. Marston.

ISBN

0861590945 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^96022155^

OCLC

• 34513274
• SCSB-10076242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library