166 THE KEV. H. G. 0. KENDALL ON [May 1909, 



9. Paleolithic Implements, etc. from Hackpen Hill, "Winter- 

 botjene Bassett, and Knowle Farm Pit (Wiltshire). By 

 the Bev. Henri George Ommanney Kendall, M.A. (Com- 

 municated by W. Whitaker, B.A., F.B.S., F.G.S. Bead 

 February 24th, 1909.) 



[Abstract.] 



Implements are described from the localities mentioned in the 

 title, which lie at beigbts of 885, 576, and 450 feet above O.D. 

 respectively. Hackpen Hill forms a ridge of Chalk running north 

 and south, capped by patches of Tertiary clay. Trimmed stones of 

 eolitbic nature were obtained from fields ploughed in Drift-gravels, 

 together with abraded Upper Greensand chert, quartzite-pebbles, 

 and small flints. The greater number of the flaked stones were 

 found within and near shallow pits excavated in yellow Drift-clay, 

 apparently newer than the Bed Clay with Flints, exposed at the 

 edges of the larger hollows. The implements are unabraded, 

 abraded, and striated ; some stained brown, some green, others 

 unstained ; evidently some are in situ, others were brought with 

 the Drift. Implements taken from the clay are described, and a 

 distinction is made between the palaeoliths and neoliths obtained 

 from the same surface. The similarity in the mineral condition 

 of the former to palaeoliths from Knowle Farm Pit is pointed out, 

 and both are referred to the Chelleen period. 



It is noteworthy that, while implements and flakes are numerous 

 on the top of Hackpen Hill as compared with good, trimmed pieces, 

 yet at this 570-foot level on the Winterbourne-Bassett plain 

 implements and flakes are very scarce, while trimmed pieces are 

 very numerous, although the level of the Winterbourne stones is 

 300 feet lower. Many of the latter, however, have been evidently 

 rechipped, and are therefore of later date. The Author concludes 

 that implements of at least three palaeolithic periods are found 

 at Knowle, and these three periods may be compared with the 

 Chelleen, Lower Acheulien, and Upper Acheulien of Prof. Commont 

 at St. Acheul. Still older implements (possibly earlier Chelleen) 

 seem also to occur. 



Discussion. 



Mr. H. W. Monckton asked in what sense the term eolithic 

 was used by the Author. Did the Author treat the eolithic im- 

 plements as belonging to an older period than the palaeolithic 

 implements, or did he use the word as describing a different and 

 ruder form of implement without reference to the period to which 

 it belonged ? The speaker mentioned that, in the Beading District, 

 the older implements were, in at least one case, better formed than 

 those of a somewhat more recent date, both being of palaeolithic 



