REV. R. A. BULLEN, B.A., ON EOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS. 209 
These implements from Berkshire may be referred to three 
general types :— 
1. “ Large implements with rounded butt. 
2. “Grooved or hollowed scrapers. 
3. “Fragments of flint worked at the point only. 
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These implements are of the general character of 
plateau-type implements, being slightly but distinctly 
worked, and rude in form. The gravels from which they 
were obtained are of the same age as the plateau gravels 
of Kent. They are, moreover, at a much higher level than 
the pleistocene gravels of the Thames Basin. They are 
accepted as pre-glacial (Southern Drift). 
In 1897 Mr. W. J. Lewis Abbott, F.G.S.,* an acute 
observer of the younger school of British geologists, found 
four implements near Sherringham, Norfolk (one of which 
bears an éraillure or secondary small flake-mark on the bulb 
of percussion, a hall-mark of man’s handiwork).f 
Of these four implements, one was found embedded in the 
iron-pan of the “Elephant Bed,” and the others on it, but 
having the purple black stain characteristic of the flints 
found in that deposit. Mr. Clement Reid, F.G.S. (as quoted 
by Mr. Abbott), says, “I have always considered that, if 
implements were found in the Forest-Bed, it would be at 
Runton (on the Norfolk coast near Sherringham), although 
up to the present I have been unable to find any.”t 
This discovery by Mr. Abbott puts man in the pre-glacial 
epoch to which the Cromer Forest-Bed belongs. 
Again, in 1898 Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.S., of the University 
College, Liverpool, found in the shell-bearing sands and 
gravel on Moel Tryfaen two implements which Mr. Abbott 
gives weighty reasons for accepting as of human workman- 
ship, but his argument is too lengthy to be reproduced here. 
Mr. Lomas§ says, “ The boulders associated with the flints 
without exception came from the north. The probability, 
then, is strong that the flints came from the north. Unless 
some concealed outcrop of chalk occurs somewhere in the 
* Nat. Science, vol. x, No. 60, pp. 89-90. 
+ Op. cit., p. 95. “I found one well-bulbed flake, partly of the same 
stain, but partly of a rich brown, on the beach at Bawdsey in Suffolk 
in Pa from the locality it may belong to the Red Crag.” 
id. 
§ Lomas, “On some Flint Implements found in the Glacial Deposits 
of Cheshire and N. Wales,” Liverpool, Arkell, p. 12. 
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