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accidental concussions that exceed the limitations of selective
flaking in the sense previously described, there is still a marked
tendency for the flakes to be struck from the corners, angles and
projections of the nodules ; this is conspicuously seen on the
Cromer beach site.
Last year I referred briefly to the problems presented by
the operation of geological agencies in the flaking of flint, as
affecting the archaeological determination of primitive human
industries. This year, I have, in the foregoing discussion,
entered considerably further into the mutual contacts between
the two subjects, and have endeavoured to fill up many of the
gaps that were left open on the previous occasion. Every
new thing has to fight for its place in the sun, and so it is not
surprising that in past years I have met, from many quarters,
an impenetrable inhibition against allowing the whole truth of
natural flaking; and a part only of the truth is fatally misleading
Moreover, this unwillingness to learn with an open mind whatever
the facts have to teach has not been balanced by a corresponding
reticence or reserve in pronouncing public judgment upon the
problems concerned. Now that opinion is beginning to swing
the other way the time seemed ripe for attempting to give the
pendulum an additional impulse. We cannot know too much
about Nature; we should learn and learn and still go on learning
more and more; and then start learning all over again.
NOTES ON CERTAIN OBJECTS FOUND IN
RED HILL EXCAVATIONS AT
CANVEY ISLAND.
By ERNEST LINDER, B.Sc.
(With Four Plates.)
THE results are illustrated by a Plan and three other Plates.
The Plan (Plate 3) shows the position of each of the 28
Holes—D1 to D28—dug on the site, from December, 1937 to
February, 1941. Most of the objects that form the subject of
these remarks were recovered from Holes D19 to D28:
Plate 4.—Shows a set of what are conjectured to be Shaping
Tools. The triangular-shaped pieces of crude ware are definitely