PAETICTJLAES EEGAEDIN& HOXNE. 
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the title of “ Account of Flint Weapons discovered at Hoxne in Suffolk*.” The author 
stated that these weapons were found “ in great numbers at a depth of about 12 feet,” 
in a “stratified” gravelly soil underlying a layer of sand, containing shells and “some 
extraordinary bones, particularly a jaw-bone of enormous size of some unknown animal, 
with the teeth remaining in it.” He also observed that the flint-weapons were so 
abundant, that they were used to fill in the ruts of the adjoining road. Mr. Feere’s 
farther observations show that he was of opinion that the ground was undisturbed, and 
that the strata had been partially denuded ; and he considered that the specimens must 
be of very great antiquity, — possibly “ even beyond that of the 'present world r Excellent 
plates of two flint-implements, singularly like the lance-shaped specimens from Amiens, 
accompany the paper. 
I lost no time in visiting Hoxne, a pretty \illage five miles eastward of Hiss (Map, 
Plate XI.). The old brick-pit is about half a mile south of the village, on the road to Eye, 
adjoining the park and on the property of Sir Edward Kerrison. It is still worked, 
but the section is necessarily in some degree altered from what it was in Mr. Frere’s 
time. (For section of pit, see Plate XI. sect. 2.) The present diggings show: — 
Section in S.W. corner of Hoxne IricTc-field, 1859. 
feet. 
1 to 2 
Fig. 12. 
a. Surface soil, traces of sand and gravel. . . 
h. Brown and greyish clay, not calcareous, 
— used for brick-earth ; with an irre- 
gular central carbonaceous or peaty 
seam. Two flint-implements are 
marked in the position assigned to 
them by the workmen, by whom they 
were found last winterf 10 to 12 
c. Yellow sub-angular flint-gravel, with a 
certain proportion of small chalk peb- 
bles, and a few pebbles of siliceous 
sandstone, quartz, and other old rocks. 
Bones of Mammalia. Tlie matrix of 
this bed, in places, consists of clay 
like T). It thins out to the westward to 1 
d. Bluish and grey calcareous clay, in places very peaty ; lower part with seams or partings 
of sand. Wood and vegetable remains. Land and freshwater shells. Bones of Mammalia. . . 
W. 
Fliiit-inipie- 
meu!s. 
Base 01 pit. 
feet. 
3 to 4 
e. Gravel like c, but smaller, more worn, and with more chalk pebbles 1 to 2^ 
f. Calcareous grey clay, more or less peaty, with freshwater shells (I had a boring made in this 
bed to a depth of 17 feet, but no bottom was reached). 
I was fortunate in meeting mth an old man who had worked in the pit since 1801, 
Archseologia, vol. xiii. p. 204, 1800. The original paper is as short as it is interesting, 
t On my first visit I found no organic remains in this bed. The remains of the JBos (^primigenius ?) 
have since been found in it by the Bev. Mr. Guistn. And I have part of the socket of the tusk of an Ele- 
phant from the gravel c. These have been obligingly determined by Mr. Quekett (Nov. 1860). 
