A Levallois Knapping Site at West Thurrock, Lower Thames, UK: its Quaternary Context, Environment and Age

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Progress in faunal correlation of Late Cenozoic fluvial sequences 2000–4: the report of the IGCP 449 biostratigraphy subgroup

“…Key Lower Thames sites published during the course of IGCP 449 include three localities attributed to MIS 9: Barling (Bridgland et aL, 2001), Purfl eet (Schreve et aL, 2002) and Hackney Downs (Green et aL, 2005), and two attributed to MIS 7: Aveley (Bridgland et aL, 2003a;Schreve, 2001aSchreve, , 2004 and Lion Pit tramway cutting, West Thurrock (Schreve et aL, 2006). Data from these sites both test and reinforce the biostratigrahical model erected by Schreve (200Ia; Fig.…”

“…The MIS 7 interglacial also has a characteristic suite of Mollusca, found in the Lower Thames sites such as Crayford (Kennard, 1944), Aveley (Cooper, 1972) and the Lion Pit tramway cutting at West Thurrock (Bridgland and Harding, 1994;Schreve et a!., 2006), as well as beyond the Thames basin. It is dominated by C jluminalis, which is present in the Thames for the last time and contains a fu rther important indictor in the fonn of P. clessini, which is thought to have become globally extinct after MIS 7 (Keen, 1990(Keen, , 2001Preece, 1999).…”

An enhanced record of MIS 9 environments, geochronology and geoarchaeology: data from construction of the High Speed 1 (London–Channel Tunnel) rail-link and other recent investigations at Purfleet, Essex, UK

“…Finally, a short distance downstream from Purfleet, at West Thurrock, Essex (Fig. 2), a Levallois industrial assemblage again occurs in a terrace-edge context Harding, 1994, 1995;Schreve et al, 2006). All three of these comparative Lower Thames sites, however, belong to the next terrace in the Lower Thames sequence, formed by the Mucking Gravel (Fig.…”

“…In the Thames, some of the largest worked-flint assemblages, including that from Purfleet and, from the MIS 8-7-6 Taplow-Mucking terrace (Fig. 3), those from Northfleet (Smith, 1911;Wenban-Smith, 1995), Crayford (Spurrell, 1880;Chandler, 1916;Kennard, 1944) and West Thurrock (Warren, 1923;Bridgland, 1994;Schreve et al, 2006), are related to industrial sites adjacent to river cliffs. These have evidence of large-scale extraction and working of flint (workshops), combined with areas of tool manufacture and use (Turq, 1988(Turq, , 1989.…”

“…Murton et al, 2001;Schreve, 2001Schreve, , 2004Bridgland et al, 2003;Desprat et al, 2006;Schreve et al, 2006;Roucoux et al, 2008) and MIS 11 (Droxler et al, 2003;Rousseau, 2003;Antoine and Limondin-Lozouet, 2004;Preece et al, 2007). Thus the Lower Thames terrace sequence at Purfleet (Fig.…”