222 J. Re id Moir^Age of Earliest PalceolitJtic Imjplements. 



and, furtlier, I would wish it to be clearly understood that the 

 views expressed in this note are based solely upon discoveries 

 made in the Ipswich district, an area with which I am intimately 

 familiar. 



Neolithic. — On the high ground near Ipswich a flint arrow-head 

 was found in the surface soil.^ In the bottom of the Gipping Valley 

 a chipped and polished flint axe has been discovered recently under 

 3 to 4 feet of peat surface soil. [Man, in course of publication.) 



Upper Paleolithic : Magdalenian. — No certain traces found, 

 unless a floor in Ivry Street, Ipswich, buried under 2 or 3 feet of 

 stoneless snuff-coloured sand, can be referred to this cultural phase. 

 This floor is situated uj^on the plateau.^ 



Solutrian. — A patinated and rolled early Solutrian flint blade 

 was found in gravel at the site of the Ipswich Electric Power Station, 

 situated in the bottom of the Gipping Valley."'' 



Two Early Solutrian blades were found in hill-wash overlying 

 the Aiirignacian floor in Messrs. Bolton & Co.'s brickfield, Henley 

 Road, Ipswich.^ This hill-Avash was probably laid down during 

 a period of low temperature, and may perhaps be regarded as the 

 equivalent, on the high ground, of the river-gravel in the Gipping 

 Valley containing a Solutrian blade. The period of low temperature 

 responsible for these depositions may have been that known upon 

 the Continent as the Wilrm. 



AuRiGNACiAN. — A well-marked floor, containing Aurignacian 

 flint implements, covered by the above-mentioned hill-wash, and 

 resting upon loamy sand in Messrs. Bolton & Co.'s brickfield, 

 Ipswich.^ 



Lower Paleolithic : IJ'irper Mousterian. — A well-marked floor, 

 containing Upper Mousterian flint implements, generally covered 

 by peat or loamy sand, and resting sometimes ifpon Chalky Boidder- 

 clayixi Messrs. Bolton & Co.'s brickfield, Ipswich.'' 



? Middle Mousterian. — A floor with ? Middle Mousterian flint 

 implements and abundant remains of reindeer, occurring in loam, 

 and under 4 feet of alluvium and 8 feet of gravel (the deposit 

 containing the Early Solutrian blade above mentioned) at the site 

 of the Electric Power Station, Constantine Road, Ipswich.' 



Lower Mousterian. — Flint implements found in Chalky Boulder- 

 clay at Bolton & Co.'s brickfield, Ipswich, and Mason's Cement 

 Works, Claydon."* 



The Chalky Boulder-clay may be referable to the Riss glaciation. 



1 Moir, Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst., vol. xlvii, 1917, pp. 406-7. 



2 Moir, Proc. P.S.E.A., vol. i, pt. iv, pp. 475-9. 



■' Hancox, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch, and Nat. Hist., vol. xi, pt. i and pt. ii, fig. 4. 



■• Moir, Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst., vol. xlvil, 1917, pp. 405-6. 



" Ibid., pp. 367-412. 



e Ibid. 



■ Moir, Man, vol. xviii. No. 7, July, 1918. 



s Moir, Proc. Sufi. Inst. Arch, and Nat. Hist., vol. xvi, pt, ii, pp. 9S-134. 



