144 OVERTON LONGVILLE. [l859. 



any (this, I think, should lessen or remove the suspicion which 

 some have of the St Acheul workmen possibly manufacturing 

 the implements, for if they [fabricated] these why not the St 

 Koch men ?). Still Dr Eigollot mentions them. One of the things 

 poor John Brown l did before his death was to spend some four 

 or five days at Hoxne, working out the shells there, taking a 

 load of clay away with him to continue the search at home. He 

 mentions Cyclas but no Cyrena. I had a visit the other day from 

 man A at Orton, near Peterborough. He still maintained, when 

 I showed him the French specimens of flint implements, that he 

 had found flints like them in the Orton gravel pits, and man 

 B, who accompanied, confirmed it, and observed that he had seen 

 more at the large gravel pits at Water Newton four miles from 

 Orton, and where the gravel is 20 feet deep. I asked him to 

 go over for a day and give me the results. Ever truly yours, 



J. PEESTWICH. 



In his recent edition of c Ancient Stone Implements,' 

 Sir John Evans remarks, " At Overton Longville or 

 Little Orton, two miles S.W. of Peterborough, a spot 

 visited by Sir Joseph Prestwich and myself in search 

 af palaeolithic implements, about 1861, some were found 

 a few years ago by the late Dowager Marchioness of 

 Huntly." 2 



1 John Brown, F.G.S., of Stanway, near Colchester, a zealous worker at 

 the Pleistocene fresh- water deposits of Essex and Suffolk. Born 1779; 

 died 1859. 



2 * Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britian,' 2nd edition, Longmans 

 & Co., 1897. 



