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where necessary. It is hoped to have this ready by next season
when we shall start using the new names. For a while we shall be
using the old and new names side by side until we feel we can
drop the old. I intend to translate the Pearson (1938) list into the
new system and compile a matching supplement of species re-
recorded since 1938 and additions to the list. This will be a
further step towards the publication of a current list which, I
hope, will be available before long.
Excavations at the Globe Pit, Little Thurrock,
Grays, Essex, 1961
By A. J. R. Snelling
INTRODUCTION
For many years the study of Palaeolithic industries in the
lower Thames Valley has been carried out mainly south of the
river and the north banks appear to have been sadly neglected.
This is especially surprising as the bulk of the fluviatile deposits,
in which the industries are usually found, lie to the north of the
river. Indeed there is much to suggest that the old course of the
river lay in a line running through Ilford, Chadwell Heath,
Ockendon and Grays.
Nearly all the work done on the north Thames deposits was
carried out by a well-known member of the Field Club, the late
S. Hazzledine Warren. It is on the basis of his work done in
the thirties when many of the famous sections, such as the Clacton
Channel and the Martins section at Hornchurch, were visible that
has enabled the great progress in this subject to be made.
The Clactonian industry is recognised as the earliest repre-
sentative of human workmanship in the lower Thames Valley.
It was first named as an industry by the late Abbe Breuil when
he examined the industry from the already mentioned Clacton
Channel. The industry has since been found at Swanscombe in
the lower gravels and later by Mr. Wymer at Little Thurrock. It
is recognised that the industry did not disappear in the face of
the newer, more advanced techniques but became absorbed in the
new industries. Many hundreds of Clactonian-type implements
have been found alongside those of Acheulian-type at Swans-
combe, and it is interesting to note that many implements of
Clactonian type have been found together with Acheulian and
Levalloisian implements at Purfleet, Essex, on a site found by me
recently, a report on which will be published shortly. We see
therefore that the Clactonian industry continued to exist through-
out the lower and middle Palaeolithic, the newer cultures using
the older techniques when the situation required it. Thus when a
heavy Clactonian Chopper was required, Palaeolithic man was not
backward in producing it.