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to 100 or more specimens) was sold to Dr. Frank Corner some
thirty years, ago ; the Swains are believed to have possessed
but few specimens. The considerable collection of prehistoric
implements and flakes, numbering 306 specimens, made by
Amos Herring and Phillip Thornhill, was, in November, 1923,
acquired by purchase from the latter's son for the Essex Museum
at Stratford ; it is this collection which Mr. S. Hazzledine
Warren describes in the following report.
In conclusion, I should like to emphasize the undoubted
genuineness of the collection ; scarcely one, if any, specimen is
suspect of being a forgery. The bona-fides of the collectors is
patent, and when we bear in mind their station in life and their
poverty (the train fare to their collecting stations was, I learn
from Smith, a great tax upon them) it is evident that such
specimens as they may have bought from workmen in the pits
visited must have been purchased at prices which would not
have tempted forgers to exploit them.
I exhibited the collection of prehistoric implements at our
meeting in January of last year, and it is now on permanent
exhibition in the Museum.
PALAEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS
FROM THE THAMES VALLEY AND
ELSEWHERE.
Being a Report on a Collection of Prehistoric Implements, made
by members of the "Chip Chap Club" and recently acquired
by the Essex Museum, Stratford.
BY S. HAZZLEDINE WARREN, F.G.S.
(With 2 Plates).
EOLITHIC.
ALTHOUGH the "Chip Chap Club" visited Benjamin
Harrison at Ightham, and the collection includes some
Neoliths presented by him, there are no examples of the Kentish
plateau flints from what the writer calls the "soil-creep"
drifts. The corresponding flints with chipped edges from water-
laid gravels are, as a whole, somewhat different (vide Jour. R.
Anthrop. Inst., vol. xxxv., 1905, pp. 339, 346, etc.). The writer
has found many of these latter forms from the High Level gravels
of Epping Forest, and there is a notable example in this collection.