108 Rei\ R. A. BuUen— Eoliths from 8. ^ S.W. England. 



YII. Description of Plates. 



PLATE VI. 



Fig. 1. — Double-shoulder scraper, work ou one face only ; sub-ochreous, rather 



bleached, probably by vegetable action.^ Deadman Hill, 400 feet O.D. (H.P.B.) 

 Fig. 2. — Similar implement from Alderbury, split pebble with drusic cavity on 



reverse, slightly ochreous. Alderbury, 325 feet O.D. (H. P. B.) 

 Fig. 3. — Bleached, frost-bitten, double -shoulder scraper, showing greatest use on 



curve of left shoulder ; right shoulder produced by removal of a single flake. 



Sharp edges of each curve removed by local abrasion due to use. Near Tinney 



Copse, about 375 feet O.D. (H. P. B.) 

 Fig. 4. — Hollow curve of Upper Greensand chert, having no signs of human 



use. Hale's Purlieu, about 365 feet O.D. Source : Vale of Wardour. (C. Eeid, 



op. cit., p. 30.) 

 Fig. 5. — Eough flake from a ' Woohvich and Beading' pebble made into a hollow 



' scraper ' ; edge still acute, resembling others from Alderbury ; sub-ochreous ; 



bleached probably by vegetable action. Hinton Admiral Common, 110 feet 0!D. 



May 28th, 1895. (E. A.-B.) 

 Fig. 6. — Bleached hollow ' scraper ' just below summit of Alum Chine, much more 



roUed than Fig. 5. Alum Chine, about 110 feet O.D. May, 1895. (E. A. B.) 



PLATE VII. 



Fig. 1. — Ochreous, hollow, beaked 'scraper' from Alderbury; edges of curve 

 sub-acute. Alderbury, 325 feet O.D. (H. P. B.) 



Fig. 2. — Ochreous, hollow, beaked 'scraper,' sub-acute, blunted by local abrasion 

 through use, or contused by natural causes. Near Tinney Copse, about 375 feet 

 O.D. (H. P. B.) 



Fig. 3. — Sub-ochreous, hollow ' scraper,' frost-bitten, sub-acute, with a convexo- 

 concave surface showing work on both faces. Deadman Hill, about 360 feet O.D. 

 (H. P. B.) 



Fig. 4. — Massive hoUow 'scraper,' bleached by contact with clay or loam. 

 Porcellaneous on worked curve and other parts ; the high patina probably 

 caused by the scouring of water containing sand or silt. Near Tinney Copse, 

 about 375 feet O.D. (H. P. B.) 



Fig. 5. — Hollow 'scraper' mth well-defined symmetric curve, showing primary 

 and secondary chipping and local abrasion from use, the latter modifying the 

 sharp edge produced by the smaller secondary chipping. Deeply ochreous, 

 older than the valley gravels with which it was associated. Jumper's Heath, 

 about 20 feet O.D. (E. A. B.) 



MAP, PLATE VIII. 



Incidentally one is inclined to discount the value of mineralogical 

 condition, at all events in determining the age of Eolithic implements. 

 Taking the hollow scrapers as an example, though of the same type, 

 these show, even from the same deposit, e.g. Alderbury, great 

 differences as regards stain, hardness, patina, and wear. 



In conclusion I would thank Dr. Blackmore and Mr. Westlake 

 for their kind co-operation, and Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.E.S., 

 for helping me both in the manuscript and the proofs. 



VIII. BihliograjpTiy of the subject. 



1889. Frestivich, J. — "On the occurrence of Palaeolithic Flint Implements in the 

 neighbourhood of Ightham, Kent ; their distribution and probable 

 age"" : Q.J.G.S., 1889, vol. xlv, p. 270. 



1891. Frestivich, J. — " On the Age, Formation, and Successive Drift Stages of the 

 Valley of the Darent, etc." : Q.J.G.S., 1891, vol. xlvii, p. 126. 



1 For rationale of this bleaching of flints, see Codrington on the superficial 

 deposits of the South of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 1870, vol. xxvi, p. 528. 



