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trace of Pliocene man, Professor Prestwich stated in the discussion that he had 

 found a bone in the same series which seemed to have been sawn into two. But as 

 he had thought it was impossible that man should have existed at that period, he 

 had pronounced against the saws. Here, however, are both saws and men associated 

 in the pre-glacial stratified deposits of the early Pleistocene period, and it is quite 

 possible that they may yet be found in Pliocene times. 



3. The Survival of Primitive Imjjlements in the Faroes and Iceland. ^ 

 By Nelson Annandale, B.A. 



The objects noticed were collected by the author in the Faroes, the Wesimann 

 Isles, and the Rangarval district of South Iceland. They were in use at the end 

 of the nineteenth century, though mostly obsolescent, and include stone hammers 

 of two different kinds, bone needles, pliers, skates (or rather runners), pegs for 

 stretching out hides, toys, sieves of skin, and other articles. Their distribution 

 in the districts indicated is by no means uniform, those which occur in the Faroes 

 being generally absent from "Iceland, and vice versa, while those from the West- 

 mann Isles difier from the specimens collected on the mainland opposite. This 

 difference in distribution may be partially due to differences in local conditions 

 that have caused some implements to disappear and others to continue in use, but 

 may also have some ethnological interest, it being very improbable that the people 

 of the Faroes are of even as pure Scandinavian descent as those of Iceland, while 

 the Westmann Islanders did not originally come from Rangarval, but from the 

 extreme north of Iceland, where the population is more highly cultured than that 

 of the south. 



4. Coldrum, Kent, and its relation to Stonehenge."^ 

 By George Clinch. 



The district which lies immediately to the N.W. of Maidstone is remarkable 

 for an interesting series of prehistoric megalithic remains. The best known of 

 these is Kits Coty House ; a fallen cromlech called the ' Countless Stones,' lower 

 down the same hillside ; several other ruined examples in Addington Park ; and 

 Coldrum, or Coldreham, which stands less than two miles north of this, on high 

 ground overlooking the Medway valley and within sight of Kits Coty House. 



The remains of Coldrum comprise a central cromlech without capstone, an 

 irregular line of large blocks of stone on the western side, and traces of a tumulus. 

 The published descriptions of it ^ do not, however, mention its most important 

 and characteristic feature, namely, that between the two upright stones which 

 form the sides of the chamber there stand two stones, about midway, forming a 

 partition which divides the space into two adjoining sepulchral chambers. 



_ The size of the upright stones is remarkable (7 feet high by 11 feet by 2 feet 

 3 inches thick), and still more the regularity of their form. 



Seventeen irregularly placed stones, inclosing a small space on the W. side of 

 the cromlech, represent a part only of what was probably a quadrangular or oblong 

 enclosure, placed at the foot of the tumulus, by which the whole cromlech was 

 originally concealed. 



The arrangements above described — of a two-chambered cromlech with a 

 square or oblong tumulus and massive outline wall— are of great rarity ; and the 

 whole structure suggests a late date in the neolithic age, when the form of the 

 sepulchral chambers was followed out in the construction of the mound. A 

 similar somewhat larger neolithic megalithic structure at Sievern, in Hanover, has 

 been fully published, with illustrations, by Fr. Tewes.^ 



' To be published in full in Jonrn. Anthr. Inst, xxxiii. 

 2 Published in full in Man, 1904, 12. 



' Flinders Petrie, Archaoloffia Cantiana, vol. xiii. pp. 14, 16 ; George Payne, Collec- 

 tanea Cantiana (1893), pp. 139-141. 



* Die Steingraber der Provinz Hannover, 1898. 



