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are aware that tlie Romans had a settlement on Chapel Hill^ 

 and that on this site was the village of Braintree until the 

 completing of the Doomsday Book. Braintree as we now have 

 it, only dates from the end of the 12th century.'" I give a 

 photograph of the urns, one of a series taken by Mr. Tilston, of 

 Braintree, and have to thank the Rev. J. \V. Kenworihy and 

 ]\Ir. Parmenter for the information embodied in this note. It is 

 very meagre, and serves as an example of the necessity for some 

 such organisation for systematic explorations as that advocated 

 at the meeting of delegates of Local Scientific Societies at 

 Southport. All discoveries of the kind should be taken in hand 

 at once by an instructed Committee and every fragment found 

 carefully localised, labelled, and preserved, so that a really 

 scientific report could be drawn up. We are losing piecemeal 

 year by year valuable material for the "buried history of 

 Essex." 



NOTES ON A PAL^OLITH FROM GRAYS, 



ESSEX. 



By A. S. KENNARD. 

 {IVith Plate VI.) 



THIS implement was found by myself in situ in the 

 section of the Middle Terrace gravel exposed in the 

 Globe Pit, Grays. Judging from its condition and the style of 

 workmanship, it does not truly belong to that deposit, but has 

 been derived from the High Terrace, the true Middle Terrace 

 implements being totally different. It is a good example of 

 what is often called the "Moustier" type, from the fact that 

 similar tools were found in the cavern known as " Le Moustier," 

 situate on the right bank of the Vezere, France. The remains 

 from this cavern are considered to show an advance on the 

 period of St. Acheul, but older than any yet discovered in caves. 

 Mr. C. H. Read, F.S.A., has described them as being "marked 

 by a more or less curved cutting edge at one side (hence often 

 called ' side-scrapers'), and chipped, for the most part, on one 

 face only. The chief locality is High Lodge, Mildenhall, 

 Suffolk, but specimens are found elsewhere, as in north-east 

 London, and the peculiar form suggests some connection 

 between palaeolithic man of these levels and the oldest cave men 

 of southern France."^ In the first place, it must be re- 

 marked that this type is by no means uncommon in the High 



