Palceolithic Man. 
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recent years attempts have been made to put the pits at 
Cissbury, and the flint -mines known as “ Grime’s Graves ” 
at Brandon, Suffolk, back into the Palaeolithic epoch. I must 
acknowledge myself unable to share these views ; for me, 
these sites, with their modern fauna, are Neolithic.’ 
Unfortunately the book was too far advanced before the 
account appeared of a figure of an elk with red-deer antlers, 
etc., scratched on the outer surfaces of flint nodules, found in 
the Grime’s Graves (see The Naturalist, 1921, p. 257). We 
should have liked the author’s verdict upon these. 
Still referring to engravings of animals, it is reported that 
‘As remote specimens of animal engraving, indicating the 
geographical limits of the art, may be mentioned the examples 
which England has yielded. These are a representation of a 
horse-head from Robin Hood’s Cave (Cresswell Crags), and 
a similar but less definite example from Sherbourne. An 
engraved figure of a goat (?) standing with one leg raised, 
faintly inscribed on a pebble found at Nay land, Suffolk, is 
perhaps a little doubtful ; it seems somehow to lack the in- 
definable but unmistakable “ feeling ” of Magdalenian Art.’ 
In place of this ‘perhaps a little doubtful,’ we should, after 
having examined the specimen, certainly state ‘ a purely 
natural feature, ’ caused by a flake being broken from a quartzite 
pebble, probably by a plough. The drawing on the pebble as 
reproduced in Prof. Macalister’s volume, taken from the 
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archceology , has evidently 
been filled in with chalk and imagination, and is much 
improved ’ upon the figure on the stone itself. 
But the next sentence makes one gasp, ‘ We need say 
nothing of the “ mammoth ” from Saxmundham, Suffolk 
(see Naturalist, 1919, pp. 85-86, 126-128). Thus is dismissed 
Mr. Reid Moir’s epoch-making discovery of a ‘ statue ’ of a 
mammoth, a memoir upon which appeared in Man, and a 
further memoir upon which was threatened ; but we fancy 
the threat will never be carried out. 
And lastly, Prof. Macalister deals with the * Supposed 
Glacial Striae on Neolithic Flints,’ a subject we have from 
time to time discussed, and of these he says ‘ What are we to 
say of one glaciation, let alone five or six, which passed over 
the country and left no traces whatever except scratches on 
artificial implements ? How did the ice choose on which side 
to make the scratches ? For we are told, in the East Anglian 
Society’s Proceedings , that the scratches are almost always on 
the bulbar side of the flake. How could such an ice-flow 
produce criss-cross scratches on a small flake ? These are some 
of the questions which present themselves when we examine 
the illustrations : and we feel constrained to conclude that 
almost any theory of the origin of these markings is better than 
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