MR. W. G. CLARKE ON NORFOLK FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 217 
Egypt, near Johannesburg, and in Queensland. In Kent the 
implements occur in plateau gravels, which appear to have 
been deposited when the present Weal den plain was occupied 
by a range of hills elevated about 2500 feet above the present 
surface, and when the rivers flowed north and south from the 
watershed at least 400 feet above their present level.* 
To the English localities already recorded I have now to 
add Eaton, near Norwich, which (with the exception of the 
somewhat doubtfully worked Hints found in the Cromer 
Forest-Bed at Runton by Mr. Lewis Abbott) is the first 
record for Norfolk, and with the exception just named the 
most northerly spot in Europe at which Eoliths have yet been 
discovered. The first implement was found on the surface 
last year by Mr. G. Rye, of Norwich, and my identification 
of it as an Eolith was confirmed by Mr. Benjamin Harrison, of 
Ightham, and Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
The former described it as a superior kindof Eolith representing 
the transitional period when the early workers began to flake 
in a better style, in addition to the characteristic hacking. 
Professor T. R. Jones says : — “ The hollow on the concave 
edge shows by its large and small chippings that it was pro- 
duced intentionally by human agency.” . This implement 
has a bulky butt, some of the more obtrusive angles of which 
have been removed by narrow chippings. Beneath, it is flat, 
and on one side is a big hollow in which there has been plenty 
of typical hacking. As a result of this concavity there is a 
comparatively narrow point from which various tiny flakes 
have been removed. Its colour is a peculiar bronze-brown 
with a mottled appearance in places ; its greatest length is 
just under, and greatest width just over, three inches. After 
confirmation of the Eolithic character of this implement, 
Mr. G. Rye and I sought for the bed from which it came, 
and in the stones excavated from Eaton lime-kiln have found 
over 100 Eoliths, taken from beds varying in thickness from 
a few inches to several feet, and in depth from the surface 
from about 16 to 30 feet, the surface here being just below 
the ioo-foot-level. 
* British Museum ‘Guide to the Antiquities of the Stone Age,’ p. 25. 
