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Further Excavation of La Cotte de St. Brelade, Jersey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

R. R. Marett
R. R. Marett
Affiliation:
Rector of Exeter College, Local Secretary for the Channel Islands
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The Island of Jersey being now (August 1940) in the occupation of the enemy, I should like to put on record the present state of the thus interrupted excavation of the Palaeolithic site known as La Cotte de St. Brelade. Here, as is well known, important finds have been made in the past, notably during the years 1910–16. There was every reason to believe, when operations were suspended in the course of the last Great War, that more remained to be discovered near by; but the far greater bulk of the ‘head’ covering the untouched parts long deterred us from so laborious and expensive an undertaking. At length in 1936 we were moved to make a fresh start, thanks largely to the generosity of the Royal Society, which made us grants of £50 for two successive years, followed by three more of £25 per annum, the last of which could not be used. This money has been entirely spent in securing the expert assistance of quarrymen in charge of Mr. W. Bichard; tools and other material aids being provided at the expense of the Société Jersiaise.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 1940 , pp. 460 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1940

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References

page 460 note 1 See MrsHawkes, Jacquetta, The Archaeology of the Channel Islands, vol. ii, Société Jersiaise, 1937, 35–52Google Scholar. See also R. R. Marett, Archaeologia, lxii, lxiii, lxvii; and (with G. F. B. de Gruchy, the generous owner of the site), Bulletins de la Société Jersiaise, xxxviii, xl–xliv.

page 461 note 1 See Mrs. Hawkes, ibid. 160–71.

page 462 note 1 See Congrès International d'Anthropologie et d'Archéologie Préhistoriques, XIVe Session, Genève, 1913, i, 359–60Google Scholar.

page 464 note 1 See Mrs. Hawkes, The Archaelogy of the Channel Islands, vol. ii, 45.

page 464 note 2 The only other account of these operations is to be found in Marett, R. R., Caves and Cave-Hunting, Jan. 1938Google Scholar.