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Figure 2.9 Final Upper Palaeolithic ‘long blade’ artefacts from Scatter ‘A’, Three Ways Wharf (Uxbridge,
Greater London). Microliths: 3957, 3479, 5502, 0390, 2165, 8943 and 4454; opposed platform blade core:
8977; bruised blade: 9022.
Source: Courtesy of CBA/Museum of London
Other assemblages combining long blades and blades with bruised edges are known from 28
findspots in south-eastern Britain and East Anglia (Figure 2.10). Most are located in floodplain
or low river valley terrace situations, in places suggesting immediate access to in situ sources of
flint. Where larger scatters of material have been recorded, as at Sproughton (Suffolk), Riverdale
(Kent), Springhead (Kent), Swaffham Prior (Suffolk), Avington VI (Berkshire) and Gatehampton