TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 693 



the place of manufacture is certain, and having regard to material, colours, work- 

 manship {e.g., stitches), design, and the original use of the embroidered object. 



The establishment of an accepted terminology of fabrics and designs must not 

 be expected until more work has been done in detail, but provisionally the author 

 distinguishes groups which may be designated as ' Rhodian,' ' Cretan,' ' Turkish,' 

 with "subdivisions corresponding with the territories, such as those of the old 

 Duchy of Naxos and Cyprus, in which the Italian influences above named are 

 especially marked, or in which, as in the North ^gean, ' Oriental ' traits pre- 

 dominate. The use of vague popular terms, such as the ' style of Janiua,' is to be 

 deprecated. The principal varieties of style were illustrated by photographs of 

 typical examples. 



MO NBA I , A U6 UST 6. 

 The following Papers and Reports were read :— 



1. On the ' Red Hills ' of the East Coast Salt Marshes. 

 By F. W. RuDLER, I.H.O., F.G.S., and W. H. Dalton, F.O.S. 



The ' red hills ' are low mounds of burnt earth, thickly scattered along parts 

 of the estuarine marshes of Essex and other East Coast counties. Probably 

 Roman if not pre-Roman in date, their crude pottery, their relative position to 

 the present tide-levels, waterways, and coast-line, and their other characteristic 

 features, have given rise to much controversy as to their age and original pur- 

 pose. A brief account of these interesting relics was read to the Association 

 in 1880 by the late Mr. Henry Slopes (' Transactions,' 1880, p. 631), and they 

 have been described by Mr. W. Cole. Systematic study is now contemplated by 

 a Committee of the Essex Archaeological Society, in co-operation with the Essex 

 Field Club. 



2. Archo'.ological Discovery at Gargas> By Dr. E. Cartailhac. 



In the Grotto of Clargas hands painted in red have been discovered comparable 

 with similar painted hands fotmd in caves in Australia, which were painted by 

 the Aborigines as records of alliances, &c. The hand was placed flat on the rock 

 and red paint blown round it ; the hand was then raised and the imprmt left 

 behind on the rock. The Gargas hands have been made in a similar way. 

 Similar hands have been observed in California. At Gargas left hands predominate ; 

 some are isolated, some in groups ; sometimes they are black. MM. Carthailhac 

 and Breuil have been studying these paintings by the aid of comparative 

 ethnology and will shortly publish their results, which promise to be of great 

 interest in the history of art. 



3. A Winter's Work on the fyswich Pakeolithic Sile.''- 

 By Miss Nina Frances Layard. 



Satisfactory results have been obtained from another winter's work on the 

 Ipswich Palfeolithic site. Fifty-four definitely formed implements have been 

 found, besides several dozens of small size showing signs of human work, but of 

 rougher construction. These small tools are of two kinds, but are found associated 

 together. They may be described as respectively adapted for scraping and skinning, 

 and have a certain resemblance to the Neolithic implements employed in this work, 

 though not so carefully finished. Some of the scrapers are roughly squared, but 

 they are by no means uniform in shape. Most show the bulb of percussion on the 



' Published in Man . 



^ To be published in Jown, Anthroj). Inst. 



