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the primitive culture of an unwarlike and non-hunting
people, probably pastoral in occupation, and with the dawn of
agricultural practice.
8. The occurrence of worked flints along with Roman remains
at Great Chesterford and with Iron Age or Early Roman pottery
at Chiswick Hall suggests an enquiry as to a Post-Neolithic
date for these sites, but until further chronological evidence
is forthcoming, it is convenient to regard them as belonging to a
culture intermediate to the Cissbury and late Neolithic type.
9. The correlation of patination to the character of the soil
is suggestive and may be summarised as:—
Soil with much humus, black and unpatinated.
Chalk soil, white patina.
Sandy loam, greyish glaze to blue mottle.
Clay loam, blue mottle.
Clay, greenish glaze to "toad-belly" and ochreous type.
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