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were found, is only about thirty feet above the present 

 level of the river, and hence represents the middle period 

 of the work of the river in erosion. 



Another locality in England in which similar discov- 

 eries have been made, is at Hoxne, about five miles from 

 Diss, in Suffolk County. Like that in the valley of the 

 Thames, however, the implements were found a long time 

 before the significance of the discovery was recognized. 

 Mr. John Frere reported the discovery to the Society of 

 Antiquaries in 1801, and gave some of the implements 

 both to the society and to the British Museum, in whose 

 collections they are still preserved. The implements are of 

 the true palaeolithic type, and existed in such abundance, 

 and were so free from signs of wear, that the conclusion 

 seemed probable that a manufactory of them had been 

 uncovered. As many as five or six to the square yard are 

 said to have been found. Indeed, their numbers were so 

 great that the workmen " had emptied baskets of them 

 into the ruts of the adjoining road before becoming aware 

 of their value." 



The deposit in which they are found is situated in the 

 valley of Gold Brook, a tributary of the Waveney. The 

 implements occurred about twelve feet below the surface, 

 in fresh- water deposits, filling a hollow eroded in the 

 glacial deposit covering that part of England. This, 

 therefore, is clearly either of post-glacial or of late glacial 

 age. 



Still another locality in which similar palaeolithic im- 

 plements were found in undisturbed gravel of this same 

 age in eastern England is Icklingham, in the valley of the 

 Lark, where the situation is quite similar to that already 

 described at Bedford, on the Ouse. 



The last place we will stop to mention in England 

 which was visited by palaeolithic man, during or soon after 

 the Glacial epoch, is to be found in the vicinity of South- 

 ampton. At this time the Isle of Wight was joined to the 



