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implements were living, at least, in inter-glacial times, and, indeed, in
pre-glacial times. The implements which he had brought to the meeting
were entirely pre-glacial—that was to say, they dated before the last
Glacial period.
The Rev. A. W. Rowe, F.G.S., sent for exhibition a series of Palaeo-
lithic implements, found by himself on the Warren Hill, near the village
of Little Barton, Suffolk. [See notice of these, with plate of drawings,
in ' Second Annual Report of Felstead School Natural Science Society,
1884.] Also an oval-shaped implement found in June, 1888, by Mr. A.
Skill, lying on the surface in a field in the parish of North End, about
one and a-half miles from Felstead. Mr. Rowe wrote:—" This is, I am
told, one of the most remarkable implements yet discovered; it is of
dull red sandstone, carefully chipped on both faces, quite symmetrical,
and wrought up to an edge all round, with flattened ends. It is six inches
long, four wide, and two thick ; but tapers towards the ends, where it is
about half an inch thick and not quite two inches wide."
Mr. Bowe also sent for exhibition four Palaeolithic implements from
near Felstead, concerning which he wrote as follows :—
" Palaeolithic Implements from the Boulder Clay
near Felstead.
" On the road leading to Chelmsford, about half a mile south of
Felstead, is a large day-pit, where brick-making has been carried on
for many years. The pit is about a hundred yards in length, by sixty
or seventy wide. Where the few inches of loam at the top have been
removed, a whitish-yellow clay is exposed, several feet thick, with a
white clay underlying it. The whitish-yellow clay is full of white-
coated flints of all sizes, many of them very clearly striated, lumps of
hard chalk also striated, boulders and pebbles of quartzite, &c, and is
evidently part of a glacial deposit. The white clay which underlies it
is the Chalky Boulder-clay itself, the two being, in all probability, parts
of the same deposit, though the line of separation is so distinct, where
it is exposed, that it can be seen at a considerable distance off. At the
N.E. side of the clay-pit the Chalky Boulder-clay can be very clearly
seen dipping underneath the whitish-yellow clay in a direction nearly
due N. and S., and at an angle of about seven degrees. On the N. side
of the clay-pit, the Chalky Boulder-clay is also distinctly visible in a
ditch which, running E. and W., separates the clay-pit from a field
lying to the north of it, the surface of which lies above the present
surface of the clay-pit. On the S. side the road runs E. and W., and at
a short distance to the S. of this road the gravels which underlie the
Chalky Boulder-clay are found quite at the surface ; consequently it
seems as if the clay-pit once formed a large deep hollow in the surface.
and that this was filled up by the Boulder-clay when it was spread
over all this part of the country ; that since that time the land to the N.
and S. of the pit, and no doubt the surface of the clay-pit also, has
been denuded of this Chalky Boulder-clay, but that the great mass of
it in the clay-pit has been left by reason of its lying in this hollow.
Among the stones taken out from this clay when it was dug, four stone
implements were found last March (1881), of which two bear distinct
marks of striation, and one of these shows that it had been used as an