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Ashton, N.M., Lewis, S.G., Parfitt, S.A., Penkman, K.E.H. and Coope, G.R. 2008. New evidence for complex climate change in MIS 11 from Hoxne, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 652–668
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Bridgland, D., Gibbard, P., Harding, P., Kemp, R. and Southgate, G. 1985. New information and results from recent excavations at Barnfield, Swanscombe. Quaternary Newsletter 46, 25–38.
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Bridgland, D. R. (1994). Quaternary of the Thames. Geological Conservation Review Series 7. Chapman and Hall, London.
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Candy, I., Preece, R.C., White, T.S., Sherrif, J. 2014. The δ18O value of non-marine mollusc shells from Middle and Late Pleistocene terrace deposits of the River Thames. In: Bridgland, D.R., Allen, P., and White, T.S. (eds.). The Quaternary of the Lower Thames and Eastern Essex. Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association, London, pp 27–31.
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Conway, B., McNabb, J., Ashton, N.M. (Eds), 1996. Excavations at Swanscombe 1968–1972. British Museum Occasional Paper 94, London.
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Gibbard, P. L. 1985. The Pleistocene History of the Middle Thames Valley. Cambrige University Press, Cambridge.
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Horne, D.J. 2014. Interglacial palaeo-temperature reconstructions for MIS 11 and MIS 9 in SE England. In: Bridgland, D.R., Allen, P., and White, T.S. (eds.). The Quaternary of the Lower Thames and Eastern Essex. Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association, London, pp 23 – 27.
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Kerney, M.P., 1971. Interglacial deposits at Barnfield Pit, Swanscombe, and their molluscan fauna. Journal of the Geological Society of London 127, 69-93.
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Ovey, C.D. (Ed.), 1964. The Swanscombe Skull. A Survey of Research on a Pleistocene Site. Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional Paper No. 20. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London.
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Penkman, K. E. H., R. C. Preece, D. R. Bridgland, D. H. Keen, T. Meijer, S. A. Parfitt, T. S. White, and M. J. Collins. 2011. A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula. Nature, 476: 446-449.
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Preece, R.C., Parfitt, S.A., Bridgland, D.A., Lewis, S.G., Rowe, P.J., Atkinson, T.C., Candy, I. Debenham, N.C., Penkman, K.EH., Griffiths, H.I., Whittaker, J.E. and Gleed-Owen, C. 2007. Terrestrial environments during MIS 11: evidence from the Palaeolithic site at West Stow, Suffolk, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26: 1236-1300.
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Schreve, D. C. 1998. Mammalian biostratigraphy of the later Middle Pleistocene in Britain. Unpublished PhD thesis: University of London.
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Schreve, D. C. 2001. Differentiation of the British late Middle Pleistocene interglacials: the evidence from mammalian biostratigraphy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 20: 1693-1705.
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Smith, R.A., Dewey, H., 1913. Stratification at Swanscombe: report on excavations made on behalf of the British Museum and H.M. Geological Survey. Archaeologia 64, 177-204.
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Stringer, C.B. and J.-J. Hublin. 1999. New age estimates for the Swanscombe hominid, and their significance for human evolution. Journal of Human Evolution 37, 873–877.
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Stringer. C. B. 2006. Homo britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain. Penguin/Allen Lane: London. 319 pp.
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Sutcliffe, A.J. 1964. The mammalian fauna. In: Ovey, C.D. (Ed.), The Swanscombe Skull: a Survey of Research on a Pleistocene Site. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, pp. 85–112.
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White, T.S., Preece, R.C. and Whittaker, J.E. 2013. Molluscan and ostracod successions from Dierden’s Pit, Swanscombe: insights into the fluvial history, sea-level record and human occupation of the Hoxnian Thames. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).
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Wymer, J. 1968. Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain. John Baker, London.
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