Wessex Archaeology Coastal and Marine
An amazing collection of 28 flint Neanderthal hand-axes has been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth.
The find was made by a Dutch amateur archaeologist who regularly searches for mammoth bones and fossils in marine sand and gravel delivered by Hanson Aggregates Marine Ltd to a wharf at Flushing, near Antwerp.
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The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and WA continued their long-standing collaboration by making a joint presentation to the CEDA Dredging Days conference in Rotterdam, November 2007.
The paper - Working alongside the Historic Environment: an aggregate dredging industry perspective - has been published digitially and can be downloaded here (2.09Mb):
CEDA24: Russell and Firth 2007
CEDA - the Central Dredging Association - is the professional society for those involved in activities related to dredging and who live or work in Europe, Africa or the Middle-East. Its ‘Dredging Days’ conference in 2007 focussed on environmental aspects of dredging.
The BMAPA / WA presentation set out the benefits to industry and to archaeology of taking a pro-active approach to the historic environment.
More information about BMAPA can be found here.
Details of WA’s work with the marine aggregates industry can be found here.