112 NOTES ON A PALAEOLITH
are aware that the Romans had a settlement on Chapel Hill,
and that on this site was the village of Braintree until the
completing of the Doomsday Book. Braintree as we now have
it, only dates from the end of the 12th century." I give a
photograph of the urns, one of a series taken by Mr. Tilston, of
Braintree,. and have to thank the Rev. J. W. Kenworthy and
Mr. Parmenter for the information embodied in this note. It is
very meagre, and serves as an example of the necessity for some
such organisation for systematic explorations as that advocated
at the meeting of delegates of Local Scientific Societies at
Southport. All discoveries of the kind should be taken in hand
at once by an instructed Committee and every fragment found
carefully localised, labelled, and preserved, so that a really
scientific report could be drawn up. We are losing piecemeal
year by year valuable material for the "buried history of
Essex."
NOTES ON A PALAEOLITH FROM GRAYS,
ESSEX.
By A. S. KENNARD.
(With Plate VI.)
THIS implement was found by myself in situ in the
section of the Middle Terrace gravel exposed in the
Globe Pit, Grays. Judging from its condition and the style of
workmanship, it does not truly belong to that deposit, but has
been derived from the High Terrace, the true Middle Terrace
implements being totally different. It is a good example of
what is often called the "Moustier" type, from the fact that
similar tools were found in the cavern known as "Le Moustier,"
situate on the right bank of the Vezere, France. The remains
from this cavern are considered to show an advance on the
period of St. Acheul, but older than any yet discovered in caves.
Mr. C. H. Read, F.S.A., has described them as being "marked
by a more or less curved cutting edge at one side (hence often
called 'side-scrapers'), and chipped, for the most part, on one
face only. The chief locality is High Lodge, Mildenhall,
Suffolk, but specimens are found elsewhere, as in north-east
London, and the peculiar form suggests some connection
between palaeolithic man of these levels and the oldest cave men
of southern France."1 In the first place, it must be re-
marked that this type is by no means uncommon in the High