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found a small but very important part of the skull — the 
part which gives us a reliable index to the width and form 
of the posterior or occipital part of the head. There can 
be no doubt that it was from this bottom layer that the 
piece of skull handed to Mr Dawson by the workmen 
came and the other fragments recovered from the spoil- 
heaps. In the bottom layer eoliths were also found — 
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Hastings' 'beds 
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Fig. 97. — Diagrammatic sketch of the gravel deposit in which the Piltdown 
skull was found. The section represents the face of the pit, with the hedge 
and trees beyond. 
the rudely worked implements which Mr Benjamin 
Harrison had discovered on the Kentish plateau in 1865. 
In some of these the edges were sharp, showing that they 
had come to rest soon after falling in the bed of the ancient 
Ouse ; others were blunted and abraded, showing that 
they had been rolled for a long distance before coming 
finally to rest in the bottom bed at Piltdown. In this 
same bed was found the much-rolled cusp of a Mastodon 
— a primitive genus of elephant which was in existence 
