Year: 1927
Type: article
Abstract: NEWS within our power to-day.It will, moreover, give a future generation of archaeologists an opportunity of satisfying themselves that the reports of our work were reliable and accurate ."With regard to the excavations themselves Mr Keiller says :-" The first year's work (1925) consisted of certain trial excavations of typical portions representing different features, e.g., Inner, Middle and Outer Ditch, and certain of the holes within the area.Last year we began upon the more definite line which would in future be followed, namely, excavating from causeway to causeway in any section which was undertaken.The next year's work (1927) will be the continuation of the first year's work upon the lines of the second year's work, that is to say, those sections in which diggings were made the first year will be completely excavated this year from causeway to causeway in each case, and the causeways themselves will be exposed."Archaeologists will follow the work on this most important site with the greatest interest. FLINTS AND " FOOD-GATHERERS "Considerable success has attended the second year's excavations at Lower Halstow, near the mouth of the Medway, in Kent, of a series of Stone Age hearths ; and it is now possible to group the finds as follows :- (I) Types resembling forms of the Upper Palaeolithic period,
Source: Antiquity
Author: J. P. T. Burchell
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2497544503