Primeval Man in the Valley of the Lea. 
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collection ; and from the stony beach of Hampshire, opposite 
the Isle of Wight, I have more than one hundred examples; 
some of these, until recently found by me, had been tossed 
about so long in the sea that they were, when found, almost 
as smooth as the ordinary large oval pebbles of the beach ; 
others of the beach implements have marine growths upon 
them, both animal and vegetable. 
In a paper read by me before the Anthropological Institute 
on June 25th, 1878 (and published February, 1879), I men¬ 
tioned for the first time various localities for Palaeolithic im¬ 
plements at Lower Clapton, Sliacklewell, Stoke Newington, 
Edmonton, Tottenham, Waltham, and Chesliunt; these local¬ 
ities I identified at that time with the Valley of the Lea. Since 
then the implements, fossil bones, and shells have several times 
been exhibited by me before the Anthropological Institute, the 
British Archaeological Association, and once before the Archae¬ 
ological Institute. The vegetable remains have been shown by 
me before the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. I have also several times communicated the localities 
for implements to ‘Nature.’ The positions on the Lea Valley 
of my discovery are chiefly on the west bank; starting from the 
south, the first place is London Fields, near Kingsland; then 
Homerton, Hackney, Lower Clapton, Mildmay Park, South 
Hornsey, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Shackle- 
well, Stamford Hill, Tottenham, Edmonton, Enfield, Forty 
Hill, Waltham, and Cheshunt. On the east bank, Plaistow, 
Stratford, Leyton, Wanstead, Walthamstow, Leytonstone, 
Higham Hill, West Ham, Forest Grate, and Upton. Leaving 
the Lea Valley for the Boding, I may add Barking, East Ham, 
and Ilford; and further east still, Grays Thin-rock, Tilbury, 
Mucking, Orsett, and Southend. All these localities were first 
lighted on by myself, for no implements had been traced with 
any certainty to the Lea till I found the stone tools in situ. One 
implement had been previously found by Mr. John Evans at 
Highbury, in the Valley of the Thames ; another in a road at 
Clapton by Mr. Gaviller; a third also in a road by Mr. Ans- 
combe. These three examples no doubt raised strong pre¬ 
sumptions of their local origin. 
