PALAEOLITHIC INDUSTRIES, CLACTON AND DOVERCOURT. 13
times (as in 1,4) the tendency is to the left-handed finish, giving
the twist in the reverse direction to that seen in 2, 4c.
Fig. 3, 1, is a good example of a more ovate form, thin and
fairly smooth-surfaced. The finish is exclusively on one face
only, but equally along both edges. It is without twist.
Fig. 3, 2, is a small example of the pointed implement with
untrimmed butt. This form is second in importance to the
cordate and ovate group. Like many of the pointed Dovercourt
implements it shows a slight tendency to a longitudinal curve :
in the face view it turns a little to the right at the point : the
axis of the implement being indicated by the arrow above the
face view. This feature is one of the characteristics of the
Micoque industry.
Fig. 3, 3, is the longest implement I have from Dovercourt ;
it is even thinner towards the point than the edge view seen in
I. e. ; in fact, it appears almost too fragile for its size to be very
serviceable. The side edges are slightly incurved ; in many of the
Dovercourt implements this feature is more strongly marked,
some of them approaching (though none of them quite reach)
the ideal form of fig. 1, 6. The lines on the patch of cortex
shown in the drawing represent glacial striae, thus proving the
implement to have been made from a Boulder-Clay flint. Like
many of the Dovercourt implements it is much cracked by
thermal fractures.
Fig. 3, 4, is the smallest Dovercourt implement in my
collection, and represents the more triangular form that is also
present.
Practically all the Dovercourt implements are in mint
condition, and show no signs of damage from use in spite of their
fragile thinness. The few exceptions are probably stray deriva-
tives of earlier date.
I obtained none of the ruder flakes that must necessarily
be produced in the preliminary dressing of the flint nodules,
but a large number of the thin, often incurved, flakes scaled
off in the later stages of the flaking process. It looks as if the
rougher preliminary work had been done elsewhere.
The Holland Gravel.
The cliff all the way from the west end of Clacton (that is
to say, as far as from the Clacton channel deposit) to the outlet