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V.—The High Terrace of the Thames: Report on Excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey in 1913

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Reginald A. Smith  and
Henry Dewey
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The joint investigation of the deposits belonging to the 100-ft. terrace of the river Thames was continued last year under the same auspices as in 1912 at certain spots in the neighbourhood of Greenhithe and Crayford, respectively east andwest of Dartford, Kent. Special facilities were again afforded by the Trustees ofthe British Museum and the Director of the Geological Survey; but the fund drawn on for this work is under the control of Sir Hercules Read, who in his dual capacity as President of the Society and Keeper of the British and Medieval Departmentof the British Museum is anxious to sustain the effort that is being made to bring archaeology into touch with geology, and is at the same time gratified to enlist the sympathies of unofficial workers by having the report presented to the Society.

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Archaeologia , Volume 65 , 1914 , pp. 187 - 212
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1914

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