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grave 133. Professor W. Gowland, F.S.A., has examined them, and reports them 

 to be iron rust originating from wrought iron. 



The possible sources whence the iron might have come are three : — • 



1. Reduction by the Predynastic people from ore. 



2. Trade from the Negroes or others. 



3. A find of native iron. 



Sources 1 and 2 are improbable, nor is there need to trouble about them, as 

 native telluric iron occurs in at least a dozen places in the world. It is especially 

 liable to occur in basalt ; and as Sinai is largely composed of this rock, and as in 

 all probability the Predynastic people were accustomed to mine there, it seems 

 that a find in Sinai of native iron of telluric origin is the most probable source 

 whence it was obtained. 



7. Pleistocene Man in Jersey} By R. R. Marett, M.A. 



1. A cave named La Cotte de St. Bretade, on the south coast of Jersey, has 

 yielded (a) osteological remains, identified by Drs. Smith Woodward and 

 Andrews as those of a pleistocene fauna, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, two kinds 

 of horse, bovines, and deer; (b) thirteen human teeth, which Dr. Keith regards 

 as those of an adult individual of the Neanderthal type, and indeed as being 

 in certain features more primitive than any hitherto known; (c) numerous 

 implements of well-marked Mousterian facies, amongst which none are of the 

 roup de poing type with secondary chipping on both faces. These finds were 

 all close together amongst the remains of a hearth not far from the cave entrance, 

 under about twenty feet of accumulations, consisting of clay and rock-rubbish. 

 Various interesting problems arise in regard to the geological cause of these 

 accumulations, the source of the flint that served to make the implements, the 

 connection of Jersey with the continent implied by the fauna, and so on. The 

 cave is at this present moment undergoing further excavation, and much remains 

 to be done. 



2. A cave named La Cotte. de St. Oven, on the north coast, near the N.W. 

 corner, has yielded implements of a Mousterian facies, but of a coarser work- 

 manship, one of these being a heart-shaped roup de poing, whilst three others 

 approximate to the same form. It is suggested that this cave belongs to an 

 older Mousterian horizon than the other. Two separate hearths have been 

 found here, the site having been recently searched completely. The stratification 

 of the floor, which is about four feet deep, raises some important points. 



3. Other evidence concerning pleistocene man in Jersey is scarce and uncer- 

 tain : (a) Sporadic flint implements have been assigned to the Mousterian and 

 other palaeolithic horizons; (b) a human skull, and elsewhere the bone of a horse, 

 have been found deep in the loess of the low-lying parts of the island, which in 

 some cases underlies a stratum containing remains of the Early Neolithic period ; 

 (r) the raised beaches of Jersey and the neighbourhood provide a problematic 

 scale of emergences and submergences, into which may be fitted the particular 

 emergence coinciding with the Mousterian occupation. 



8. Cranium of the Cr6-Maqnon Type found by Mr. W. M. Newton in a 

 Gravel Terrace near Dartford. By A. Keith, M.D. 



Although the Cro-Magnon race was widely distributed in France towards the 

 end of the Glacial Period, no remains of this race have yet been found in England 

 at a correspondingly early date. From the fauna which accompanied the ('><">- 

 Magnon race one infers that its period corresponds to the excavation of the 

 Thames Valley below the level of the sixty- foot terrace. For several years Mr. 

 W. M. Newton worked a pit in the gravel terrace on the west side of the valley 

 of the Darenth, a mile above Dartford, in the hope of finding palaeolithic flints — 

 in which search he was successful. The gravel excavated forms a stratum, 



1 Published with full details in Archceologia. vol. Ixii. (1911). 



