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Primaeval Man : A Pakiiolithic Floor near 

 Dunstable. 



ALL persons interested in the subject of the antiquity of man have 

 read j Professor Prestwich's recently-pubhshed papers in the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and the Journal of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute^ on the stone implements found on the chalk plateau 

 of Kent in the Darent district. Palaeolithic implements of a similar 

 class have for several years past been found by me in the drift which 

 caps the highest chalk hills of south Bedfordshire and north Hertford- 



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 Fig. I. — Section through CaddiiiKton Hill, Dunstable. 



shire, and a brief preliminary note from my pen on these discoveries 

 will be found in Nature, vol. xl., June 13, 1889, p. 151. 



I must say here that the implements I am about to mention are 

 bona Jide implements and works of art. The dubious and disputed 

 forms which have been described as implements of human make 

 from the chalk plateau of Kent occur here also in large numbers, but 

 it is impossible for me to accept them as of undoubted human origin. 

 Excellently made and symmetrical implements occur on the Kentish 

 chalk plateau, and similar implements occur on the hills here, and 

 to such well-made instruments of undoubted human design I alone 

 refer. 



The accompanying section (Fig. i) is taken through one of the 

 hill-tops near Caddington, about two miles to the south-east of Dun- 

 1 Ndticcfl in Natiikal Scienck, April, 1892, p. 85. 



