M‘Henry—L£xplorations at White Park Bay, &c. 463. 
LXIV.—Report on tHE Exprorations at Waits Park Bay, Baturnroy.. 
By ALExanpER M‘Henry, M.R.I.A. 
[Read, February 8, 1886.] 
I sre to lay before the Academy the results of my explorations at the- 
above locality, and to hand over the specimens obtained. 
At White Park extensive excavations and searchings were made in 
the dark-brown sand deposits, capping the raised beach, resulting in 
the finding of the numerous Paleolithic remains laid before you, and 
which I now give over to the Academy. 
This deposit of brown sand is exposed in several places along the 
shores of the bay, but principally in the central part of it, and from 
where the greater portion of the specimens were obtained. 
It varies in thickness from a few inches to a foot and a-half, and is 
undulating and irregular in its deposition. The dark-brown colour of 
the sand is, no doubt, due to the numerous fires which were burned on 
its surface at the time of occupation by the Paleolithic people, as is 
evidenced by the finding of hearths of burnt stones, charred wood and 
bones, &e. 
White Park was evidently an extensive flint implement factory, 
and permanent camping place of the people of the Stone Age. It 
possessed many advantages for such in the way of material for the 
manufacture of arrow and spear-heads, &c., and rich pasture for 
cattle, as well as being sheltered, and having a good water supply 
from springs, while all round the base of the adjacent chalk cliffs 
numerous and extensive caves existed, affording shelter in bad weather 
or from the attacks of an enemy. 
The plateau of brown indurated sand occurs about 40 or 50 feet 
above the present sea level, and was originally very extensive. It is 
now covered in parts by accumulations of blown sand, while a great 
portion of it has been carried away by denudation. Its indurated 
character has, however, tended to preserve it in many places, where 
it stands out in relief as small hills and platforms. 
Worked flints, flint flakes (wasters), and cores are very abundant 
and may be picked up in hundreds round the slopes of the platforms of 
brown sand. 
The highly-finished flint scrapers, or skin dressers, and arrow or 
spear-heads are not so numerous, and but fifty odd specimens were 
obtained, some of them showing good dressing. The few arrow and 
spear-heads found are but unfinished examples. 
Numerous round chalk flint pebbles are to be found, from hazel nut 
size to 4 inches in diameter ; probably they were used as heating-stones 
for cooking purposes, or as hammers in the dressing of arrow-heads 
and other implements. 
Pottery fragments were procured in abundance, varying from ¢ to 
an inch in thickness; unfortunately no whole examples could be met 
