In 1911, an eminent amateur prehistorian pulled the broken end of a pointed wooden shaft from Palaeolithic-age sediments at a seaside town in Essex. This artefact, still the earliest worked wood to …

In this paper, we document the macroscopic characteristics of the Clacton specimens, their microscopic features as revealed by 3D microscopy, and we interpret how these tools were used, based on...

The Clacton sediments also produced a rare example of a wooden Lower Palaeolithic tool: the tip of a wooden spear made of yew wood. Only nine other similar objects have been found from the Lower …

The Clacton freshwater deposits occupy a channel which extends inland between the two points of outcrop on the shore.

Clacton-on-Sea is within the local authority of Tendring. This data pack defines a neighbourhood's boundary based on the definition of Built Up Areas (BUA, 2024), unless stated otherwise. This...

An archaeological excavation on the site of the West Clacton reservoir and pumping station, Dead Lane, Great Bentley, Essex April-May 2007 report prepared by Howard Brooks and Ben Holloway

Breuil considered the Clac-tonian a flake industry with three developmental stages; the flakes were said to have been struck on an anvil (block-on-block technique) and to show generally a wide (broad, …