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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
A collection of lithic debitage from the Lower Greensand at Holmbury Hill
JAMES BARFOOT and JONATHAN COTTON
A small lithic collection from the Lower Greensand at Holmbury Hill is examined, and found to contain a chronologically mixed inventory of artefact types. The scrupulous nature of the collecting, in which every piece of debitage was retained, makes it a useful addition to our knowledge of the area, though further advances are only likely to come about through the adoption of still more rigorous fieldwalking programmes of the type now being contemplated in this part of southern central Surrey. The collection, which includes four artefacts of Portland-type chert, will be deposited at Castle Arch, Guildford, with the exception of the barbed-and-tanged arrowhead, the ground axe blade and three of the scrapers, which have all been retained by the first writer.
