Prehistoric Ebbsfleet: Excavations and Research in Advance of High Speed I and South Thameside Development Route 4, 1989 – 2003
Francis Wenban-Smith, Elizabeth Stafford, Martin Bates & Simon A. Parfitt
Description
The construction of High Speed I (HSI; formerly the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) entailed a major programme of archaeological investigation across Kent, Essex and Greater London. In the Ebbsfleet Valley, a small tributary of the River Thames, a remarkable array of archaeological evidence was discovered, attesting to human occupation spanning a period of 400,000 years.
This volume is the last in a series of HSI archaeological reports for the Ebbsfleet Valley. It also incorporates evidence recovered during the construction of the South Thameside Development Route 4 (STDR4), a road upgrade funded by Kent County Council for the new Ebbsfleet International Station. The focus is the prehistoric landscapes and human occupation of the valley and its hinterland, from the Palaeolithic through to the Early Iron Age. This period incorporates fluctuating extremes of climate between harsh sub-artic conditions when southern Britain would have been a frozen and uninhabitable treeless waste, and warmer interludes, when luxuriant forest was interspersed with grassy plains, rich in what we would now regard as tropical fauna, such as lion, hippopotamus and hyena.
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