HAZZLEDINE WARREN : STUDY OF PRE-HISTORY IN ESSEX. 145 
At Writtle, at 5.30 p.m., on the same day, Mr. Williams tells 
me there was another violent storm of thunder and lightning, 
accompanied by torrential rain. 
I desire to thank Miss Mabel Usborne, the late Mr. William 
Marriott, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Waters, for kind help. 
THE STUDY OF PRE-HISTORY IN ESSEX, 
AS RECORDED IN THE PUBLICATIONS 
OF THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
Jdeing a Presidential Address delivered to the Club at the Annual Meeting 
on 25th March 1916. 
By S. HAZZLEDINE WARREN, F.G.S. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
I. Introduction .. .. .. .. .. 145 
II. Problems of Pre-Palaeolithic Man .. .. 147 
III. Relation of Palaeolithic and Glacial Deposits 148 
IV. Palaeolithic Deposits: Stratigraphy and Fauna.. 150 
V. Palaeolithic Implements .. .. .. 155 
VI. Holocene : Stratigraphy, Fauna, Relic-Beds .. 159 
VII. Surface Stone Implements .. .. .. 164 
VIII. Bronze Implements .. .. .. .. 166 
IX. Bone Implements .. .. .. .. 167 
X. Pottery .. .. .. .. .. 167 
XI. Pit-Dwellings, Rubbish Pits ?, Pile-Dwellings .. 168 
XII. Earthworks .. .. .. .. .. 169 
XIII. Streamlet Dams .. .. .. .. 172 
XIV. Roads .. .. .. .. .. 173 
XV. Tumuli and Mounds .. .. .. .. 173 
XVI. Human Remains.. .. .. .. .. 174 
XVII. Interment Sites .. .. .. .. 175 
XVIII. Deneholes • .. .. .. .. .. 176 
XIX. Red Hills . . .. . . . . .. 179 
XX. Charcoal Burning .. .. .. .. 180 
XXI. Game Trapping, Fishing .. .. .. .. 180 
XXII. Folk Lore .. .. .. .. .. 182 
XXIII. Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. .. 182 
XXIV. Anthropology (Foreign).. .. .. .. 184 
XXV. Prehistoric Research (Methods of) .. .. 184 
XXVI. Bibliographical .. .. .. .. .. 185 
XXVII. Maps .. .. .. .. ..185 
XXVIII. Personal .. .. .. .. .. 186 
I. Introduction. 
P ROFESSOR Huxley once said, that if every book in the 
world were destroyed, with the exception of the Philo¬ 
sophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the main structure of 
physical science would rest unshaken. For the Publications of 
our little Club, we cannot make, of course, such a comprehensive 
