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has the tranchet-like cutting edge made by cross flaking from
the sid .
No. 36a is another of similar type, but cruder, made from
Bullhead flint ; it is much abraded and looks like a specimen
dredged from Thames ballast. The writer has one specimen
of the same type from the Taplow Terrace gravel at Bent's
Farm, Leytonstone. It is known as a Palaeolithic type, but is
far more frequent in the Neolithic.
Bois de Regney, Yonne.
No. 102 is a small chipped flint axe, evidently received, like
a number of others, by gift or exchange.
Various Localities.
There are also included in the collection a quartzite hammer-
stone from Parndon, Essex (No. 104), seven arrow-heads, a small
polished jade adze, presumably from Polynesia and presented
by Benjamin Harrison, ten or a dozen good scrapers, and
numerous waste chips and flakes such as are of general occurrence
in the surface soil.
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF
MEETINGS.
VISIT TO WALTHAM ABBEY (580th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 12TH APRIL, 1924.
This was a joint excursion with the Gilbert White Fellowship, and
was arranged for the purpose of viewing the many objects of historical and
antiquarian interest in the neighbourhood of Waltham. Mrs. W. Boyd
Watt and Mr. S. J. Barns acted as conductors to the combined parties,
which numbered over 70 persons.
Travelling by fast train leaving Liverpool Street at 2 o'clock, the
visitors reached Waltham Cross station at 2.28, and a move was at once
made to inspect the celebrated Eleanor Cross. Here our leader, Mr.
Barns, took up his station on the steps surrounding the monument and
read a brief account of its history. He said :—
The Eleanor Cross is one of 16 erected by King Edward I. to mark
the resting places of the body of his first Queen on its journey 110 Herdby
in Lincolnshire to Westminster Abbey. Of these 16 three only remain,
one at Geddington, one at Northampton, and this one. In 1721 it was
protected by posts erected at the cost of the Society of Antiquaries, and
in 1757 the Lord of the Manor of Cheshunt, Lord Monson, at the request
of the same Society, built brickwork round the stone base and renewed
the posts. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments reports