290 Pre-Histovic Man in Lincolnshire. 
clearness in understanding our subject I shall use these modern 
divisions as it yives definition to points and places where traces of 
mankind have been found. 
‘Thousands of years ago, Lincolnshire and the whole of 
Northern England part of the South of England and North 
Britain were covered with vastsheets of Ice, known as Glaciers 
stretching across the North Sea or German Ocean as far as 
Norway, and these glaciers gradually moved southwards carry- 
ing on their surface and interior huge blocks of rock and stone, 
broken from the parent rocks in all directions by the action of frost 
and other disintegrating forces of nature. Specimens of these 
Glacial lsoulders are to be seen at Louth, Anwick, Welton by 
Lincoln and many other places. 
The melting point of these glaciers was at a line roughly 
drawn across England from the Wash in the Last to the River 
Severn in the West. 
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Itseems that at this period a Race of men existed in the South 
of England who from the implements they have left behind have 
been called Kolithic Men, and later on another race called Paleo- 
lithic Men—separated they may have been from one another by 
many thousands of years. 
It is from the south of England that men seem to have 
travelled northwards and settled in the Caves at Cresswell Craggs, 
Derbyshire, and Kirkdale Caves in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 
but of these Early Races of Men we have no trace in Lincolnshire, 
It is not until we come to the period of Neolithic Man or the 
New Stone Age, when men were using Smooth Stone implements, 
that we find traces of men in Lincolnshire. 
Before passing to the consideration of the Neolithic People of ~ 
Lincolnshire—I would like to make reference to the divisions of — 
the Paleolithic Race. 
