MR. F W. HARMER ON THE AGE OF A FLINT IMPLEMENT 5G9 
VI. 
ON THE AGE OF A FLINT IMPLEMENT RECENTLY 
FOUND AT HELLESDON. 
By F. W. Hakmer, F.G.S. 
Read 30th January, 1S94- 
In October last, Mr. Middleton, the proprietor of the Hellesdon 
brick yards, invited the members of this Society to inspect an 
implement which had recently been found at that place, and the 
bed of gravel from which it was supposed to have been taken. 
An excursion was accordingly arranged for the 2Gth October, as the 
matter seemed an important one. If the implement had been 
found in a bed of gravel, it must have been of palaeolithic and 
not of neolithic ago, but no palaeolithic gravels were known to 
exist in that locality, and such deposits occur in this district in asso- 
ciation with river valleys only. The Hellesdon brick yards are, 
however, not within the valley of the Wensum, but are situated on 
the table land which separates that valley from those of the Bure 
and its tributaries. The only gravels known to occur on the 
Hellesdon plateau are the marine pebble beds of the Bure Valley 
series, and if it could be proved that the implement in question 
came from them, it would carry back the antiquity of man in 
East Anglia to a period vastly more remote than that which is 
indicated by discoveries hitherto made. 
