212 REV. R. A. BULLEN, B.A., ON EOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS. 
were specimens which have been fashioned after the same 
type as some “eoliths ” but more highly finished. 
Since 1898 Dr. Blackmore has been anxious to get a more 
definite geological date for the eoliths, and has had the good 
fortune to find eoliths in the Hlephas meridionalis gravels of 
Dewlish,in Dorset. He has generously placed the announce- 
ment of these discoveries at my disposal; and the Victoria 
Institute has the honour of the first statement of these 
important facts. 
Dr. Blackmore’s statement to me by letter is as follows :— 
“The Alderbury gravels were looked upon by Prestwich 
as a good example of Southern Drift. Before he had 
definitely arranged the various beds of gravel, they were 
looked upon as Pliocene, but the absence of fossils, shells, or 
mammals always left the question of age somewhat doubt- 
ful. They certainly rest upon the Bagshot Sands, are at a 
much higher level than the river drift, which furnishes both 
flint paleolithic implements and a very good list of 
Pleistocene mammals and shells. 
“There is one point worth noting: the Alderbury gravels 
are largely dug for road-metalling, and for the last twenty 
years search has been made for the ordinary paleeolithic 
type of implements both by myself, the workmen who dig 
the gravel, and other good field-geologists, but in vain. 
Nothing of this kind has turned up, although they are found 
in fair abundance in the lower-river-drift gravels of the 
neighbourhood. 
“ But since one’s eyes have learned to recognize eolithic 
forms and workmanship, plenty have been found in the 
Alderbury gravels at all levels, some 14 feet deep, which I 
have taken out of the gravel with my own hands. 
“ Being very anxious to fix the Pliocene age of these 
eoliths, rather more than a year ago I went down to Dewlish, 
in Dorset, with the express purpose of carefully examining 
the gravel which had furnished the remains of lephas 
meridionalis, as this was the one spot in the South of 
England which was regarded as a patch of Pliocene gravel. 
“The farmer, Mr. Kent, on whose land the elephant 
remains were found was fortunately known to me, and he 
furnished me with two or three labourers. <A trench was 
opened through the deposit of gravel, and there was no 
difficulty in finding eoliths, stained like the gravel, at the 
‘same level and associated with the elephant bones. This 
was to me most satisfactory and conclusive. 
