REV. R. A. BULLEN, B.A., ON EOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS. 213 
“T may add that my grandfather, Mr. Shorto, first 
obtained a molar of Elephas meridionalis from this locality 
in 1813; and I was present when Mr. Mansel Pleydell and 
Rev. Osmond Fisher in 1887 (but then one’s eyes had not 
recognized eoliths) found the remains now in the Dorchester 
Museum. 
“T have not yet published this fact, but you can make 
use of it, as it is, I believe, the best evidence of undoubted 
age yet known. The age of the plateau gravels is very 
difficult to fix; but I believe the presence of eoliths coupled 
with the absence of the usual river-drift type of paleeolithic 
implement to be a fact quite as eloquent as a Pliocene bone 
or shell. 
“The character of the work on the flints is important. 
Koliths are hacked,* paleeoliths are chipped, and neoliths are 
flaked. Hacking, chipping, and flaking are the characteristics 
of the three stone periods. 
“The colour of the flints varies. The dark and deeply 
stained yellow ones have clearly been derived from an older 
gravel; on the other hand, those unstained or but little 
stained, and having the edges of the fractures but little 
water-worn, could not have travelled far, and are probably 
nearly, if not quite, contemporaneous with the deposit of the 
gravel.” 
Here, then, we have a series of workers in different parts 
of England whose labours, whether in Kent, Wales, Norfolk, 
or Dorset, all lead to one and the same result. They all 
point to the Pre-Glacial age of man, and the labours of 
Mr. Abbott and Dr. Blackmore both place his remains dis- 
tinctly in the epoch of Elephas meridionalis, 
‘he question then remains what that epoch is to be 
called. 
Mr. H. B. Woodward’s summary of the Pliocene strata is 
as followsf :— 
The Pliocene deposits of this country occur chiefly in 
Norfolk and Suffolk, and they consist of shelly sand, gravel, 
and laminated clay. 
* This is generally true, but deeply ochreous plateau implements with 
small chippings do occur from the Kent Plateau 450 to 500 feet O.D., 
and many neoliths are rudely chipped. 
+ Geology of England and Wales, 2ud Ed., p. 455 
