EARLY MAN 



that it was the Worplesdon specimen which first led to the discovery of 

 implements in the Farnham gravels. 



These gravels in which the Farnham implements have been found 

 are from 10 feet to 40 feet thick and lie about 364 feet above sea level 

 and about 1 50 feet above the present level of the river Wey. 



An unworn palaeolithic implement has recently been found in 

 Wonersh churchyard, but as the gravel in which it occurred had been 

 imported from some unknown locality the discovery is not of very great 

 importance. It is probable that the gravel was brought from Farnham. 

 The specimen is now in the collection of Sir W. C. Roberts-Austen, 

 K.C.B. 



At Limpsfield, a village situated upon the Lower Greensand, Mr. A. 

 Montgomerie Bell l has found at an elevation of 500 feet above the sea 

 level many palaeolithic implements embedded from 3 feet to 7 feet 

 deep in gravel. If this gravel ever formed a part of that which caps 

 some of the chalk hills to the north it must have been very con- 

 siderably degraded. This is improbable, but the implements, as also 

 the gravel in which they were discovered, have undergone a good 

 deal of drift wear. 2 



On the slope of the Lower Greensand escarpment to the south of 

 Limpsfield Common at a place called Redland's farm 3 more than 

 300 palaeolithic implements have been discovered, principally upon the 

 surface of the ground, but also in the brick earth at a depth in some 

 cases of 5 feet. The levels at which the implements were found range 

 from 570 feet to 450 feet above the sea. 



On both sides of the Wandle, within about a mile of the point 

 where the river falls into the Thames, many palaeolithic implements 

 have been found. 



Mr. G. F. Lawrence 4 of Wandsworth has for some years past been 

 finding numerous specimens in this neighbourhood. In 1882 Mr. 

 Worthington G. Smith 6 discovered a palaeolithic implement in an exca- 

 vation for the foundations of a new house on Battersea Rise near Clapham 

 Common. The gravel formed one of the higher terraces of the Thames, 

 where palaeolithic implements occur in such abundance as to lead Mr. 

 Smith to think that the specimens occasionally found in the bed of the 

 Thames near the mouth of the Wandle have been brought down from 

 the terraces. 



Mr. Lawrence 6 has also succeeded in finding palaeolithic imple- 

 ments at Lavender Hill, the borders of Wimbledon Common, Earlsfield, 



1 Quarterly Journal of the Geokgical Society of London, xlvii. 140, etc. ; Evans, Ancient Stone Imple- 

 ments, ed. 2, pp. 60910. 



* The relation of this gravel to the valley of the river Darent has been ably discussed by the late 

 Professor Prestwich (Quarterly Journal of the Gfo/ogicat Society of London, xlvii. 1 26-63), who points out 

 that ' before the deposition of this river drift at Limpsfield Common, a valley of considerable width and 

 200 to 300 feet deep had been excavated between the Lower Greensand hills and the adjacent Chalk 

 plateau, by which the future Chalk escarpment was first brought into relief. This channel (which is on 

 the line of the Gault) was subsequently worn deeper.' 



3 Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, ed. 2, p. 610. * Ibid. ed. 2, p. 604. 



6 Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xii. 2301. 6 From private information. 



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