MEN OF THE roo-FOOT TERRACE 171 
Edmunds in West Suffolk, situated on the Lark, a 
tributary of the Ouse. From the deposits in the valley 
of the Lark, a few miles below — to the north of — Bury 
St Edmunds, Dr Allen Sturge has gathered a collection of 
implements which represent man's handiwork during all 
the periods of Palaeolithic culture. About two miles to 
the west of Bury St Edmunds lies the rural parish of 
Westley, where the land rises about 100 feet above the 
level of the Lark. On the highest ground, in this area, 
numerous depressions or pockets in the chalk occur, 
some 10 to 14 feet in depth, filled with deposits of 
brick earth. In 1882, Mr Henry Prigg, a well-known 
archaeologist, lived in the neighbourhood, and kept a 
close watch on such pits as were worked for the brick 
earth, because they were known to yield implements 
of that type which we now recognise as characteristic of 
the Acheulean culture. Remains of the mammoth also 
occurred ; it was also said that a human skeleton had 
been found at a considerable depth in one of them. 
Late in the autumn of 1882 a workman found part of the 
vault of a human skull at a depth of J^ feet (2-27 m.) in 
the brick earth. Mr Prigg verified the find, and published 
an account of the fragment and of the palaeoliths found 
in neighbouring pits at about the same horizon as the 
skull. Mr Reginald Smith assures me that these 
palaeoliths are of the type usually assigned to a late 
phase of the Acheulean period. 
In order to throw a clearer light on the age and 
nature of the brick earths in which the Bury St Edmunds 
find was made, it is advisable, before describing the kind 
of man indicated by the fragment, to extend our journey 
twenty miles to the eastward, to Hoxne, where the 
implements of the. Acheulean type were first discovered. 
It is a cross-country journey, which takes us ijito the 
shallow valley of the Waveney, a stream flowing eastwards 
on the confines of Suffolk and Norfolk. As long ago as 
1797, John Frere collected flint "spear heads" by the 
score from the brick earths of Hoxne, described them,^ 
' Archccologia^ 1800, vol. xiii. p. 206. 
