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Gresham resemble some of the later work at Whitlingham. Faceting 
of the butt is not prevalent, but enough occurs to suggest some Levallois 
influence. The industries are met with in the Little Eastern gravels in 
general. Recently Coombe-Capelle hand-axes have been obtained at 
Great Melton and Mousehold Heath. 
LaTeR PALZOLITHIC. 
Later Palzeolithic industries in Norfolk are clearly more recent than 
the deposits of the Little Eastern glaciation, and appear to occupy the 
interval between it and the ice advance which deposited the ‘ purple’ 
(Hessle) boulder clay at Hunstanton. Here, in and beneath the boulder 
clay Reid Moir found specimens of Aurignacian type.* In south 
Norfolk many of the surface finds would, from technique and condition, 
be classified as of late cave date ;_ but stratigraphic confirmation is usually 
lacking. Dr. Sturge claimed a cave date for a floor, characterised by 
burins, at Wangford,!® and Marr for one at Wretham,?° whilst finds from 
Heacham may well be of this age. 
Solutrean specimens, in contrast to the numerous and beautiful laurel 
leaves of Suffolk, are poorly represented by two found at Heacham 1” 
and possible specimens from Gorleston and Gresham. Solomon claims 
that a series of coarse choppers and scrapers from Morston 18 are also of 
cave date; whilst a scraper-core from Brancaster seems certainly of 
Les Eyzies type.1* 
MESOLITHIC. 
The ice advance which deposited the purple boulder clay seems to 
mark the end of the Palzolithic in Norfolk, and the retreat of the ice was 
followed by the introduction of Mesolithic industries. These, widespread 
and prolific, fall mainly into Dr. J. G. D. Clark’s Province B, characterised 
by ‘ non-geometric microliths-cum tranchet axe,’ *° though the Wangford- 
Lakenheath specimens belong to the ‘ evolved geometric ’ of Province A.?? 
The most productive site is on the heathy plateau at Kelling,?* on the 
edge of the Cromer-Holt ridge, characteristically Maglemosian in type, 
with grand-tranchet and spoon-shaped scrapers, though a series of 
‘ haches-burins ’ connect with industries of Tardenoisian type. Micro- 
burins are almost lacking, though true burins are reminiscent of cave 
industries ; axes and picks with tranchet technique are common, as are 
finely worked saws and the innumerable ‘ beaten-back’ points—some 
over 3 in. in length. The discovery of the beautiful harpoon (Norwich 
Castle Museum) 28 near the Leman Sands provides a connecting link with 
14 Antiquaries Journal, X, Oct. 1930, No. 4, pp. 359-371. 
16 PLPES AeA. ak il, p-)3 70, and 111, ps 2277. 
16 PP lS Ee ert, Pp. o74- 
17 Antiquaries Journal, XI, 1931, p. 56. 
18 Man, XXXI, Dec. 1931, p. 267. 
19 P.P.S.E.A., VI, iv, p. 308. 
20 J. G. D. Clark, The Mesolithic Age in Britain, pp. 54-58. 
21 Tbid., pp. 32-35. 
22 Ibid., pp. 54-56. 
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