Swanscombe

The visit to Swanscombe is to the famous Barnfield Pit. Swanscombe is famous as being the site of discovery of the oldest human remains in Britian until the discovery of Boxgrove. Swanscombe remains an iconic site for the British Lower Palaeolithic with both Acheulean and Clactonian assemblages having been found. Although the quarry where the excavations took place has since been filled in a visit to the site gives a good understanding of the context of many British Lower Palaeolithic sites and an understanding of the landscape in which they were found. We will also take a quick look at the line of the Channel Tunnel rail link which has run up the Ebbsfleet Valley whose deposits continue the Pleistocene story after Barnfield.