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Hoxne
Suffolk

 

 

Strata A & B
Epoch: Middle Pleistocene; Biozone: Swanscombe MAZ; MIS: 11a
Site: 28; Horizon: 28

Fluvial channel and overlying colluvial and solifluction deposits.


Archaeology

Industry Database source
Lower Palaeolithic Singer et al., 1993
Cut Marks Parfitt, pers. comm.

Fauna

Taxon Family Database source
Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766 Soricidae Schreve, 2000
Neomys sp. Kaup, 1829 Soricidae Schreve, 2000
Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758 Soricidae Schreve, 2000
Desmana moschata (Linnaeus, 1758) Talpidae Schreve, 2000
Talpa minor (Freudenberg) Talpidae Schreve, 2000
Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 Castoridae Schreve, 2000
Trogontherium cuvieri Fischer de Waldheim, 1809 Castoridae Schreve, 2000
Clethrionomys glareolus (Schreber, 1780) Cricetidae Schreve, 2000
Apodemus sylvaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Muridae Schreve, 2000
Microtus sp. Schrank, 1798 Muridae Schreve, 2000
Pitymys arvaloides Muridae Schreve, 2000
Microtus arvalis (Pallas, 1778) Muridae Schreve, 2000
Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761) Muridae Schreve, 2000
Arvicola cantianus (Hinton, 1910) Muridae Schreve, 2000
Lemmus lemmus (Linnaeus, 1758) Muridae Schreve, 2000
Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) Felidae Schreve, 2000
Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) Felidae Schreve, 2000
Canis sp. Linnaeus, 1758 Canidae Schreve, 2000
Ursus sp. Linnaeus, 1758 Ursidae Schreve, 2000
Lutra lutra (Linnaeus, 1758) Mustelidae Schreve, 2000
Macaca sylvanus (Linnaeus, 1758) Cercopithecidae Schreve, 2000
Homo sp. (archaeological evidence) Linnaeus, 1758 Hominidae Singer et al., 1993
Equus ferus Boddaert, 1785 Equidae Schreve, 2000
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus (Falconer, 1868) Rhinocerotidae Schreve, 2000
Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) Cervidae Schreve, 2000
Dama dama (Linnaeus, 1758) Cervidae Schreve, 2000
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758 Cervidae Schreve, 2000
Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) Cervidae Schreve, 2000
Cervidae indet. Goldfuss, 1820 Cervidae Schreve, 2000
Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827 Bovidae Schreve, 2000
Bovini indet. Gray, 1821 Bovidae Schreve, 2000
Palaeoloxodon antiquus (Falconer & Cautley, 1847) Elephantidae Schreve, 2000
Elephantidae indet. Gray, 1821 Elephantidae Schreve, 2000

 

Stratum C
Epoch: Middle Pleistocene; Biozone: Undefined; MIS: 11
Site: 28; Horizon: 646

'Arctic Bed', upper lacustrine deposits


Archaeology

No archaeology databased from this horizon.


Fauna

No fauna databased from this horizon.


 

Strata F - D
Epoch: Middle Pleistocene; Biozone: Undefined; MIS: 11
Site: 28; Horizon: 645

Lacustrine deposits filling a kettle-hole in Anglian till.


Archaeology

No archaeology databased from this horizon.


Fauna

No fauna databased from this horizon.