Slocum Close, Thamesmead, SE28 TQ 4711 8059 MOLAS (Bill McCann) evaluation and excavation Aug-Sept 1993 Hexagon Housing Association SCG93
Natural sands and gravels were overlain by alternating deposits of peat and alluvium. A preliminary radiocarbon date of 5960 +/-110 was obtained from the bottom of the lower peat layer. Within the upper peat layer a timber feature was partly excavated; it was associated with with a large number of small fragments of burnt flint and two areas of charcoal and its W and E boundaries appeared to have been formed by two alluvium-filled channels. From the smaller of these channels three fragments of wood, with possible tool and spade marks, were recovered; the larger channel contained fire-damaged flint pebbles and a number of hazelnuts.