page_title: History of Kent
section_title: Prehistoric Kent
hierarchical_section_title: History of Kent / Prehistoric Kent
caption_attribution_description: English: Occipital / foramen magnum of Swanscombe-fossil (Homo heidelbergensis), ca. 400,000 years old, replica, Museum Tautavel (Perpignan-region), France Deutsch: Hinterhauptloch des Swanscombe-Schädels (Homo heidelbergensis), ca. 400.000 Jahre alt, Replika, Museum Tautavel (bei Perpignan), Frankreich Français&#160;: Homme de Swanscombe (Homo erectus), environ 400 000 ans, copie, Museum Tautavel
context_page_description: Kent is a traditional county in South East England with long-established human occupation.
context_section_description: Kent has been occupied since the Lower Palaeolithic as finds from the quarries at Swanscombe attest.  The Swanscombe skull, uncovered at Barnfield Pit, a quarry in Swanscombe, is the oldest skull found in Britain.  Identified as Homo heidelbergensis it dates to the Hoxnian Interglacial 400,000 years ago.
  During the Neolithic the Medway megaliths were built and there is a rich sequence of Bronze Age occupation indicated by finds and features such as the Ringlemere gold cup.
caption: Swanscombe Skull
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