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The Museum Gazette 



collect the materials for a book or gazetteer rather than 

 attempt to present such a work in anything approaching a 

 completed form. As our task proceeds we shall, we hope, 

 receive much assistance from our many readers who may be 

 able to give information as to places which are well known 

 to them. 



What we especially ask for are such details as would guide 

 a stranger visiting the locality in finding what he wishes to 

 see. In many of the places which will be mentioned in our 

 list a visitor would probably be disappointed. He might not 

 be able to find the cutting or the gravel bed, or he might find 

 that the ruins had been covered up again or that the field in 

 which they occurred was no longer open to the public. What 

 we should like to offer to our readers would be up-to-date 

 information which would prevent disappointments of this 

 kind and ensure successful visits. 



We offer as a first instalment the following lists : — 



SYNOPSIS OF THE MORE IMPORTANT PREHISTORIC 

 AND HISTORIC REMAINS IN BRITAIN. 



PREHISTORIC. 



Approxi- 

 mate. Period. Examples in Britain. 

 Date. 



200,000 Eolithic Rude weapons of flint in the Forest Bed, Norfolk, 

 to on the Downs in Kent, &c. Mr. Benjamin Harri- 



5000 son > °f Ightham, first drew attention to these " im- 



plements," which he found among the plateau gravels 

 at 400 to 700 feet above sea-level. They are still the_ 

 subject of much discussion. Sir John Evans depre- 

 cated the use of the term "eolithic." "We know 

 not where or when the dawn of human civilisation 

 arose, but it was probably long before the date of 

 our earliest river-gravels, and in some part of the 

 world more favoured by climate than Britain. Why, 

 then, should we speak of British implements as 

 Eolithic?" 



River Drift Flint implements from gravels at Farnham and 

 Man elsewhere. Collections of these and the preceding 

 (Paleolithic) may be seen in most Museums. 



Cave Man Collections of implements and bones from caverns 

 may be seen in the British Museum, Torquay Museum, 

 &c. In the department of British Antiquities at 

 Bioomsbury may be consulted a map indicating by 

 means of pins the principal bone caves of England. 



