CHAPTER Xll 
THE IPSWICH MAN 
On several occasions, in the course of our search for 
traces of ancient man, a cursory glance has been bestowed 
on the three eastern counties of England — Norfolk, 
Suffolk, and Essex — which represent East Anglia. At 
Ipswich, in Suffolk, Mr Reid Moir discovered, in quite 
superficial strata, work -floors and hearths of two of 
the later Palaeolithic- periods — the Aurignacian and the 
Magdalenian. A little further to the north, near 
Mildenhall, Dr Allen Sturge's excavations revealed work- 
floors of the Magdalenian and of the Mousterian periods — 
the work-floor of the latter being overwhelmed by an ice- 
movement of the last glacial phase of the Pleistocene period. 
Between Mildenhall and Ipswich lies Bury St Edmunds, 
with its deposits of brick earths and its remains of 
Acheulean man and his culture. Twenty miles to the 
east of Bury St Edmunds, in the watershed of the 
Waveney and on the borders of Suffolk and Norfolk, 
are the Hoxne brick earths, with worked implements of 
the Acheulean period. Those brick earths, we have seen 
(fig. 60, p. 173), are the upper of a series of deposits which 
fill" an ancient valley which was some 50 feet in depth. 
In the deeper deposits of this buried valley no flints of 
the Chellean or of any previous period were encountered. 
We shall probably be near the truth if we regard the 
lignite deposit of the Hoxne valley — laid down in a 
temperate interval — as being as old, or older, than the 
Chellean period. The Arctic bed between the lignite 
deposit and the Acheulean brick earths on the surface 
