480 PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS. 



valleys, viz. after the whole or greater part of the gravel was 

 deposited ". 



From the gravelly drift on the Reculver cliffs, not far from 

 the Roman station, flint implements of corresponding general 

 aspect have occasionally fallen on the beach y. 



Sharp-edged, and often pointed, flakes pieces struck off by 

 single blows from a mass of flint are met with at the old pre- 

 historic settlement of Brighthampton, near the monoliths of 

 Stanton-Harcourt (p. 57) ; and again in profusion at Dorchester, 

 near the ancient mound of Sinodun, the Roman camp of Durocina, 

 and the Saxon graves of Wittenham. 



By observations of this kind we learn that Saxon, Roman, and 

 British races have in succession congregated on particular spots, in 

 situations which had been previously occupied by earlier people 

 of ruder habits, of simpler diet and coarser clothing, who perhaps 

 had lost all memory of their connection with the outer world 

 beyond the sea, and believed themselves to be the ( aboriginal' 

 people, the only children of the first of men z . 



* I am indebted to Dr. Palmer for the knowledge of these fine specimens and 

 photographs from which the measures were taken. 



y Dr. Rolleston has shewn me good examples. 



z ' Britanniae pars interior ab iis incolitur, quos natos in insula ipsa memoria 

 proditum dicunt. . . . Interiores plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt 

 pellibusque sunt vestiti.' CAESAR, De B. G. v. 12-14. 



