268 CORRELATION OF THE PREHISTORIC "FLOOR,"
These consist of human remains (skulls), trees cut with an axe,
and other evidences of the presence of man.12 Further in the
North, on the Cheshire coast, large numbers of flint implements
are reported to have been found on the shore of the peninsula
of Wirral.13 These have been washed out of a submerged
surface, but I have not examined the locality myself ; nor
have I been able to obtain definite information about them.
A human skeleton has been found near Leasowe Castle, in the
same district, in marine clay, underlying the Upper Peat of
the Lancashire and Cheshire coast.14 This Upper Peat may be
situated approximately upon the horizon of the ''Lyonesse"
surface, presently to be defined, but I have no evidence, beyond
the general similarity of its position, that this is so. The question
is worth further consideration, as its solution would elucidate
the relative ages of the Leasowe and Walton-on-Naze skeletons ;
the latter was described in a preceding paper (ante pp. 198-208).
In the Isle of Man, human bones have been found in the
submerged forest in the Bay by Carrickey.15 Earlier discoveries
have been made at the same place, including the foundations
of a primitive hut, containing "some antique uncouth-looking
instruments, conjectured to have been the property of primitive
wood-cutters."16 On the former dry land surface beneath the
inland peat of the Island, stone axe-heads have also been found.17
In the North of Ireland, on the other hand, there is evidence of
elevation since the prehistoric age, but it is not my purpose to
enter further into discoveries so far afield as this.
On the East coast, besides my own discoveries at Ingoldmells
Point, many flint chips and other evidences of the presence of
man have been found associated with the peat exposed at low
tide in the banks of the Humber at Merton.18
I might also refer to the discovery, made by the Rev.
12 E. Smith, Trans. Geol. Soc., vol iv. (First Series) 1817, p. 404 ; W. J. Henwood Trans.
Roy. Geol. Soc., Cornwall, vol. iv. 1832, p. 58 ; J. W. Colenso, ib. vol. iv. 1832. p. 29 These
papers have been quoted by De la Beche in the "Report on the Geology of Cornwall"
1839, p. 406; and also in more recent Memoirs of the Geological Survey, but no new
Information is given as the stream tin works have long been closed.
13 C. E. de Rance Superficial Geology of South-West Lancashire, Mem. Geol. Survey,
1877, p. 94
14 T. Mellard Reade, Proc. Liverpool Geol Soc. 1871-2, p. 36 ; G. Busk, Proc. Ethnol Soc.,
vol. iv., New Series 1866, p. 101.
15 J. M. Jeffcott, Yn Lioar Manninagh (Isle Of Man Nat Hist. and Antiq. Soc.) vol. i.,
1889, p. 56.
16 Maccullock and J. S Henslow Quart. Jonrn. Geol. Soc., vol. ii., 1846, p. 344.
17 J. G. Gumming. The Isle of Man, 1848, p. 216.
18 J. R. Dakyns, C. Fox-Strangways, and A. C. G. Cameron, Geology of the Country
between York and Hull. Mem, Geol. Surv. 1886, p. 38.