﻿THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



Vol. LXIV. 



1. Some Recent Discoveries of Paleolithic Implements. By 

 Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. 

 (Read December 18th, 1907.) 



By the kind courtes}- of Mr. Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S., of 

 Dunstable, I am enabled to call attention to some recent discoveries 

 of palaeolithic implements on the southern borders of Bedfordshire 

 and in the north-western part of Hertfordshire. 



Mr. Worthington Smith's remarkable discoveries of implements 

 and of a palaeolithic floor at Caddington, not very far from Dun- 

 stable, are well known and have been fully recorded in his 

 excellent and profusely-iUustrated book ' Man, the Primeval 

 Savage,' published in 1894 — a summary of which I gave in the 

 second edition of my ' Ancient Stone-Implements,' which appeared 

 in 1897. 



The original surface of the ground at some of the Caddington 

 brick-fields was as much as 550 to 590 feet above the Ordnance- 

 datum ^ ; but at Kensworth,'^ about 2 miles to the west of 

 Caddington, Mr. Smith found a palaeolithic implement upon the 

 surface at an elevation of 760 feet. Quite recently an excellent 

 ovate implement (5 x 3| inches), black and lustrous, was found by 

 a Dunstable school-boy at the surface on Blow Downs at an eleva- 

 tion of 600 feet. The exact position is slightly to the south of 

 '• Little John's Wood,' as shown on the 6-inch Ordnance-Survey 

 Map of Bedfordshire. It is far from any existing stream, and the 

 ground slopes away from the direction of the Ver. 



' ' Nature ' vol. xl (1889) p. 151. 



- ' Man, the Primeval Savage ' 1894, p. 65. 



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