Boxgrove lectures at the British Musuem

Two lectures covering the latest research on the Boxgrove hominin locality will be presented at this years Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Day Meeting (British Musuem 10-11th March). Matt Pope and Kate Russell will be talking on aspects of the analysis of stone tool assemblages from the Q1/B site, while Mark Roberts and Simon Parfitt will be presentng the results of studies on the faunal assemblage.

New Chichester Biface

The project was recently called in to investigate the discovery of a Palaeolithic biface from a garden in NW Chichester. The location of the tool was close to Brandy Hole Lane where a fresh, grey patinated biafce was discivered last century. The new find is in a similar condition being composed of unabraided, fresh grey flint. It came from a stony clay subsoil containing a mix of gravel from Head, River Lavant and Beach deposits. More work is now needed to establish if the beach gravels are of Aldingbourne or Brighton-Norton age.



The tool itself cannot be securely dated and there is of course always the possilbity that it represents a later Neolithic axe rough-out. However, given its context and similarity to the nearby Brandy Hole find, a Middle Pleistocene age is considered most likely.

Thanks to Mr and Mrs Hunter for reporting the find.