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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



Palaeolithic and Neolithic, with which we have been 

 famTliarised by Sit John Lubbock. It .s also genetally 

 beTieved that the men of the Pateanthrop.e age belonged 

 ,o wo distinct periods, and possibly to two d.stntct races_ 

 The earlier men are those whose traces are found m dr.ft 

 leposhs on hill slopes and m rrver valleys; the Uuer are 

 thise whose weapons and implements are found m 

 and beneath stalagmitic accumulations u, caverns and 

 caves. 



THE DRIET PERIOD 

 There >s some evidence of the occupation of the 

 Middle Cotteswolds by men of the 0"^ Pf °<'„,.f'""S 

 A ree years ago Mr John Jones and Mr Edwm VVuchell 

 de"cr,b:d an! hgurid the occurrence m a <^^^^J'^^^^ 

 clone of Stroud Hill of some flnit implements, associated 

 t trdonised wood, oolitic stone changed in colour y 

 the action of fire, and the bones of animals. The bed 

 h d u doubtedly been formed by the denudation o t e 

 hieher ground and had never been disturbed; and both 

 g em eitfen were convinced that the flints (some ot which 

 fad cutting edges), charcoal -d fite-mai<e oo te w 

 the relics of men who dwelt on the top °f ''- !"'' " °^ 

 the bed was deposited. Mr Thiselton Dye.t has also 

 ■ecorded the occurrence at the Barton Pits, Cirencester, 

 of a consWerable number of very rude flint Aa^es, some 

 of which were accepted by Mr Franks at the Brit sh 

 Mnsenm as being of human manufacture. Our late 

 PreXtt (Mr w'c. Lucy) notes the abundance in the 

 ^ ghbourhood of Blockley Station of sma 1 flints, having 

 a hipped appearance, associated with drift of a variable 



* Cones. Club Proc, Vol. iii., pp- 97-iii ; 



■\ Ibid, Vol. v., pp. 271-2. 



J Cottes. Club Proc, Vol. v., p. 100. 



