The Team have been visiting local parks and doing walkover surveys, looking for features.

(taking a break from hard work)
The Team have been visiting local parks and doing walkover surveys, looking for features.

The Dartford Historical & Antiquarian Society are giving a talk tomorrow (a little short notice I realise). The title of the lecture is ‘Digging up the past, 50 years of Dartford Archaeological Group’. The speaker is Chris Baker.
The lecture is in the small theatre, Mick Jagger Centre, Shepherds Lane, Dartford, DA1 2JZ.
Doors open at 19.30. Admission is £3, members of Dartford Historical & Antiquarian Society receive free admission.
For contact deatils go to https://www.dartfordhistorical.org.uk/index.html.
Dear all,
Please join the team next Thursday 15th December for mince pies and wall chat, from 12-2pm, upstairs in the visitor centre at Shorne Woods.
All welcome, we will look back over 2022 and plan ahead for 2023…perhaps even trade our best wall theories…?
Talking of walls, please find attached an image of the new wall/structure near Randall. Note the depth of colluvium over the remains, almost ½ a metre!
Our last site day will be Friday the 16th, but a walk is being planned over the Christmas break.
Keep warm!

One of our SWAG members, Frank Beresford, has recently published a piece on lithics in the Bromley area. Click through to Acacademia.co.uk to read the article –
Abstract as follows:
Many Palaeolithic sites, first discovered in the late 19th century or early 20th century, lacked adequate publication and coherent curation of the finds which were frequently exchanged or sold and dispersed. This study focuses on a number of minor sites that have suffered in this way. The study area is in the parish of West Wickham, Kent, now part of the London Borough of Bromley. Three men discovered most of the lithic material found in the study area in the years from 1878 to 1898. All three gave partial accounts of their finds in variouscontexts during the period 1882 to 1908 and many of these accounts have been located for this study. Parts oftheir collections have been identified in the collections of two museums. The aim of this study is to investigate towhat extent it is now possible to construct a useful account of the Palaeolithic of the Upper RavensbourneValley.
Full reference: Beresford, F.R. 2014. A preliminary note on the Palaeolithic sites in the Upper Ravensbournearea, Bromley, Kent. Lithics: the Journal of the Lithic Studies Society 35: 54Ð58.