A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR CHALK EXTRACTION

GENERAL Hayes, J W (Rev) 1909 ‘Deneholes and other chalk excavations: their origin and uses’ J Roy Anthropol Inst 39, 44-76

Smith, C J 1980 The Ecology of the English Chalk. Academic Press [includes economic aspects]

BERKSHIRE Anon 1970 (no title) Newbury Weekly News 28/8/1970 Anon (nd) M4 Motorway Construction Report, Appendix 1 Underground voids at Furzehill (unpub report) Gray, R and Griffiths, S 1987 The Book of Wargrave. Wimpey Laboratories 1984 Chalk Mine at Lawrence Mead, Kintbury. Report on inspection and proposals for investigation.

DORSET Woodward, P J 1987 ‘Romano-British industries in Purbeck: excavations at Norden by Nigel Sunter….’ Dorset Natur Hist Archaeol Soc Monograph Series 6

ESSEX

Caiger, N 1976 ‘Caves in South London’ London Archaeol 3, 131-5 [chalk extraction of 'Kentish denehole' type] Chapman, D I and Hammond, P M 1962 ‘A Preliminary Report on Investigation in the Denehole at Hangman's Wood’ Essex Nature 31,11 Clift, J G N 1908 ‘A Criticism of the Hangman’s Wood Denehole Report’ J Brit Archaeol Ass 14, 101-129 Holmes, T V (nd) ‘Denehole at Gravesend’ Essex Nature 15,

HERTFORDSHIRE Anon (CSS) 1990 Underground sites. Andrews, R T 1906 ‘Cave Gate, Anstey’ Trans E Herts Archaeol Soc 3.2, 217-19. [Chalk pit and site of shaft, Cave gate Wyddial: Includes plans, section] Anon (CSS) 1986 Caves and tunnels in SE . 6.14, 50 [Chadwell chalk and flint mine] Fisher, J F & Walsh, J M 1944 ‘An investigation into chalk mining, with reference to a shaft near Kings Langley’ Trans Herts Nat Hist Soc 22.2, 48-51. Fookes, M 1997 Made in St Albans.

Hertfordshire RIGS Group 1990 Site file on Shenley chalk mine. (unpub document) [post-med chalk mine] Hunn, J R & Stanyon, M 2009 ‘Nash Mills chalk mine’ The Quarterly 72, 17-20.

Klijn, P & Clark, M 2005 The Cuffley story. 156, 223 [Chalk pits and caves] Lovell, B, & Tubbs, J 2006 ‘Ancient quarrying of rare in situ Palaeogene Hertfordshire puddingstone’ Mercian

Geologist 16.3, 183-9. [Roman puddingstone]

Murdoch’ K 2006. Information on chalk pit shaft at South Oxhey. (unpub document) [includes photos from the shaft] Niblett, R & Thompson, I 2005 Alban's buried towns: an assessment of St Albans' archaeology up to AD 1600. [Numerous chalk pits, flint mines extraction pits including Roman and Medieval] Trueman, M 1996 The lime, cement and plaster industries; Monuments Protection Programme step 1 report.

KENT and LONDON Bannister, N and Bannister D, 1993 Historic Landscape Survey of Estate nr Sittingbourne .

(unpub report) [brickworks, chalk pits, dene holes] Caiger, N 1976 ‘Caves in South London’ London Archaeol 3, 131-5

Garrod, D 1977 ‘The Discovery of a Denehole at ’ Kent Archaeol Rev 50, 248-50

Le Gear, R 1976 ‘Denehole at Rainham’ Archaeol Cantiana 91, 182-4 Le Gear, R 1983 ‘Three Agricultural Chalk Mines in North-West Kent’ Archaeol Cantaina 99, 67-72

Le Gear, R 2002 ‘Chalkwells: Hartlip and Lynsted’ Archaeol Cantiana 122, 416-17 [which reports the discovery of two chalkwell denehole's dating to the eighteenth or early-nineteenth centuries] Le Gear, R 2002 ‘Medieval Denehole at Kingsdown near Sittingbourne’ Archaeol Cantiana 122, 414-15 [which notes the discovery of a denehole when the roof of one of the underground chambers collapsed. The author dates the chalk mine to around 1250–1260 AD Le Gear, R 2003 ‘An Eighteenth-Century Chalk Mine: Northfleet’ Archaeol Cantaina 123, 403-5

Le Gear, R 2004 ‘The Dulley Caves’ Kent Archaeol Rev 157, 158-60 [Description of a series of chalk caves at Dulley, probably created by chalk mining] Le Gear, R 2005 ‘An Eighteenth-Century Chalk Cave at Manston’ Archaeol Cantaina 125, 293 [account of the discovery of a section of chalk tunnel, probably dug to obtain chalk for agricultural use during the eighteenth century] Olgilvie, D J R 1960 ‘Denhole at Barmling’ Archaeol Cantiana 74, 190-2

NORFOLK Atkin, M 1981 ‘The Chalk Tunnels of Norwich for Extraction of Chalk and Flint’ Norfolk Archaeol 38, 312-20 Bruce-Mitford, R L S 1951 ‘A late-medieval chalk-mine at Thetford’ Norfolk Archaeol 30, 220-22 Hewitt, H D 1957 ‘Chalk Mines at Thetford’ Norfolk Archaeol 31.4, 221-31 Reader, F W 1910 ‘Deneholes, Chalk Mines, and some Ancient uses of Chalk’ Woolwich Dist Antiq Soc Rep 15, 31-50

SUFFOLK

Carr, R D 1970s Suffolk Archaeological Service. Site Report. (SCCAS) [adits and shafts at chalk mine, now destroyed; unpub document]

SURREY Bagnall, C 2004 ‘The archaeology of industrial extraction from Banstead and Walton Heaths’ Surrey Archaeol

Collect 91, 167-86 [gives an account of the history or possible history of the fifty pits shown on the Ordnance Survey maps of Banstead and Walton Heaths surveyed between 1866 and 1934] Barfoot, J F 1985 ‘Excavations at the Old Quarry, Ashtead, Surrey, 1974’ Surrey Archaeol Collect 76, 81-7 Sowan, P W 1976 ‘Chalk mines is Surrey as a source of freestone’ Proc Croyden NHSS 16.2, 82-7

WILTSHIRE Crowley, D A 1987 A history of Wiltshire, volume 13: SW Wiltshire: Chalk and Dunworth Hundreds. Oxford: OUP (Victoria County History) Ride, D J 2005 ‘Quarrying for flint and chalk at Porton village: prehistoric and recent activity’ Wiltshire Archaeol

and Nature Hist Mag 98, 29-34 [Description of a chalk quarry in Porton village which is rich in prehistoric flint flakes]