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| Description | Correspondence between Kenneth P Oakley; James Baudet, L'Ecole D'Anthropologie de Paris; Desmond Collins, London; R F Jessup, Kent Archaeological Society, London; A J Sutcliffe; John Wymer, Museum and Art Gallery, County Borough of Reading; H Barker; E J Elliot, Acton; A N Christies; R L S Bruce-Mitford; D MacDougall, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Fuel Research Station, London; C R Metcalfe, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London; Richard West, University of Cambridge, Botany School; H Dewey; J C Trevor, relating to the dating of the Swanscombe material (Swanscombe skull, Gallery Hill Skeleton, Swanscombe Coombe Rocks, Northfleet skull/skull fragments from Bevan’s Cement works |