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former study has always formed part of the investigations of 
the Club. 
It is often difficult to define where one ends and the other 
begins, and indeed in this particular branch of the subject they 
appear to mutually assist each other. 
The object for which these implements were made belongs 
more to the Archeologist, but he has to fall back upon that 
branch of Geology now much _ studied—Petrology—which 
determines the rocks they are composed of, where they are 
derived from, often hundreds of miles away—and which widens 
and deepens our knowledge, and gives additional interest to the 
subject. 
And now to return to the Paleolithic implements, of which 
at present there is no reliable evidence of any having been 
found in our area, but I shall endeavour to give reasons for 
thinking there is hunting ground where they may be met with. 
Dr Evans informs me the nearest spots to our district 
where they have been found are the Thames basin above Oxford, 
and the Valley of the Axe, near Axminster; but he has in his 
collection a black chert core from Fladbury, which may be 
natural, if not Neolithic. 
In other areas where Paleolithic implements are found 
they are often associated with Mammalian remains, and as we 
are rich in specimens of them—as shewn in the Gloucester and 
Worcester Museums—it is in the localities and neighbourhood 
where they occur we should make diligent search. 
I would suggest Lassington, Highnam, Limbury, east side 
of the Malvern range, Birth Hill, Bredon, and Cropthorne 
Gravel Pits, the hills on both sides of Evesham, Welford Hill, 
Broom, Stratford-on-Avon; and from there in the Northern 
Drift Gravel above the Stour to Shipston, and on to Mickleton 
and the Vale of Moreton. 
When we know that Mr Royce was for many years at 
Swell before he was aware of the existence of implements 
in his parish or neighbourhood: and as they escaped the 
notice of so well trained an observer, we must be careful not to 
attach too much value to negative evidence: another instance 
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