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ments of chalk foraminifera and occasionally a fragment ot 
Cardium edule. Here we have the coarser materials from 
which the finer particles have been carried off to form loam 
elsewhere.” 
These gravels being thus demonstrably glacial, the 
contained implements are pre-Glacial, transported probably 
across the sea from the Lincoln or Yorkshire coast. Although 
these gravels were deposited in Glacial times, all the flints 
need not have been striated. From the undoubted Chalky- 
Boulder-Clay of Little Stukeley very few of the chalk fiints 
are ice-scratched: from an undisturbed deposit dug out in 
making a rain-water reservoir 12 feet deep and 10 feet in 
diameter I only found two flints with stria—they are now 
in the possession of Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.R.S. 
In his paper in the Anthropological Journal, Mr. J. Allen 
Brown points out how nearly the eoliths and the paleeoliths 
are associated. From his long study of stone implements 
he satisfies himself that the eoliths, paleeoliths, and neoliths 
are closely related without any great lapses of time. 
But fortunately we have still further direct evidence of 
the age of pre-glacial man in the researches of Dr. H. P. 
Blackmore, of Salisbury. He had previously worked success- 
fully im the gravels of Alderbury Hill, near Salisbury, which 
according to Prestwich belong to the southern drift,* and 
are therefore of the same age as the plateau gravels of Kent. 
His magnificent series of eoliths from these gravels have 
convinced so cautious a geologist as Mr. H. B. Woodward, 
F.R.S., who saidt he had recently seen, in Dr. Blackmore’s 
museum at Salisbury, a series of the eolithic implements ; 
and he was much impressed by the apparent evidences of 
design which they afforded. He has also, under the guidance 
of Dr. Biackmore, examined the plateau gravel at Alderbury 
whence many of the flints have been obtained; and these 
were considered to have been hacked rather than chipped 
into their present forms. It was noteworthy that Dr. Black- 
more had never obtained a single paleolithic implement 
from this plateau gravel, whereas in lower-level gravels 
near Salisbury such implements do occur, and among them 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1890, vol. xlvi, p. 181. ‘“ Alderbury Hill, 
three miles from Salisbury, was capped by gravel full of chert and 
rag-stone, like the southern drift of the Thames Basin.” 
t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1898, p. 297. Discussion on Mr. W. Cun- 
nington’s paper on “ Paleolithic Implements from Plateau Gravels.” 
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