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Underneath the crap, this reads:

Swanscombe Skull Site National Nature Reserve

On this spot on 29 June 1935 A T Marston discovered the oldest known human remains in Britain.
A fossilized fragment of a skull 250,000 years old. The smaller blocks mark the sites where two further pieces of the same skull were found in 1936 and 1955.
This site was declared a National Nature Reserve in 1954. Magnus Magnusson, writer and broadcaster unveiled this memorial 29 June 1985 the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery.

This is about all you’ll see. Pebble-dashed concrete, swathed in graffitti.

The forticifactions are actually much more pronounced than shown in this picture, which really doesn’t do the site much justice. I guess you had to be there.

Crop circle in the adjoining field. 13th July 2003

Three of the barrows, looking north with the bulk of Beacon Hill in the background

The hill from the entrance to the car park. It looks to be a bit of a climb.

Crops precluded a closer look...

Spot the ancient stone! Does this count as a Christianised site, I wonder?

Wrong! I saw at least three in contact with the capstone.

Is this real, or ‘pop’?

‘Pop’ stones, but is the one on the left the real thing?

The tomb is aligned directly toward Mizen Head in the distance (marked)

This is all that can be seen from the road – I didn’t get any closer than this at the time.

This modern circle is just around the bay to the east of Skull town. Make of it what you will...

Plough scars, or something more interesting?

Could this nearest stone have been much taller in the past?

The boulder burial in the centre

The portal from the recumbent

The recumbent through the portals

The stone row next to the circle

The three stones (with the quartz block) of the circle. Nearby stones can be seen in the background.

This is the sign to look for by the side of the road. There is a layby just west of the pathway which can be used for parking.

Looking back up the hill to the recumbent

Taken from next door’s garden.

This is a big stone, sitting in the entrance to the school. Villagers told me it’s an original and not ‘planted’ for the school...

The three main stones. The outlier is off to the left of this shot.