HAZZLEDINE WARREN : STUDY OF PRE-HISTORY IN ESSEX. 145
At Writtle, at 5.30 p.m., on the same day, Mr. Williams tells
me there was another violent storm of thunder and lightning,
accompanied by torrential rain.
I desire to thank Miss Mabel Usborne, the late Mr. William
Marriott, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Waters, for kind help.
THE STUDY OF PRE-HISTORY IN ESSEX,
AS RECORDED IN THE PUBLICATIONS
OF THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
Being a Presidential Address delivered to the Club at the Annual Meeting
on 25th March 1916.
By S. HAZZLEDINE WARREN, F.G.S.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
I. Introduction .. .. .. .. .. 145
II. Problems of Pre-Palaeolithic Man . . .. 147
III. Relation of Palaeolithic and Glacial Deposits 148
IV. Palaeolithic Deposits: Stratigraphy and Fauna.. 150
V. Palaeolithic Implements .. .. .. 155
VI. Holocene : Stratigraphy, Fauna, Relic-Beds .. 159
VII. Surface Stone Implements .. .. .. 164
VIII. Bronze Implements .. .. .. .. 166
IX. Bone Implements .. .. .. .. 167
X. Pottery .. .. .. .. .. 167
XI. Pit-Dwellings, Rubbish Pits?, Pile-Dwellings .. 168
XII. Earthworks .. .. .. .. .. 169
XIII. Streamlet Dams .. .. .. .. 172
XIV. Roads .. .. .. .. .. 173
XV. Tumuli and Mounds .. .. .. .. 173
XVI. Human Remains.. .. .. .. .. 174
XVII. Interment Sites .. .. .. .. 175
XVIII. Deneholes .. .. .. .. .. 176
XIX. Red Hills .. .. .. .. .. 179
XX. Charcoal Burning .. .. .. .. 180
XXI. Game Trapping, Fishing .. .. .. .. 180
XXII. Folk Lore .. .. .. .. .. 182
XXIII. Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. .. 182
XXIV. Anthropology (Foreign).. .. .. .. 184
XXV. Prehistoric Research (Methods of) .. .. 184
XXVI. Bibliographical .. .. .. .. .. 185
XXVII. Maps .. .. .. .. 185
XXVIII. Personal .. .. .. .. .. 186
I. Introduction.
PROFESSOR Huxley once said, that if every book in the
world were destroyed, with the exception of the Philo-
sophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the main structure of
physical science would rest unshaken. For the Publications of
our little Club, we cannot make, of course, such a comprehensive