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III.—Eoliths from South and South-West England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. Ashington Bullen
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The labours of Mr. Benjamin Harrison around Ightham, in Kent, have been before the scientific world since May, 1889, when Sir Joseph Prestwich read his now historic paper before the Geological Society “On the occurrence of Palæolithic Flint Implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham, Kent; their distribution and probable age.”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , March 1903 , pp. 102 - 110
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1903

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page 102 note 1 Published in the Quart. Journ. Geol Soc., 1891, vol. xlvii, pp. 126–163.

page 103 note 1 Evans, : “Ancient Stone Implements,” 1897, 2nd ed., p. 608.Google Scholar

page 103 note 2 I have in my collection one such deeply stained ochreous specimen from Currie Farm, Kent (fig. 6 of pl. xxi, Prestwich, “Primitive Characters, etc.,” p. 246). Two others, one ovate (St. Acheul type), and the other (referred to by Prestwich, “Drift Stages, etc.,” p. 133) of the sharp-pointed high-level type, with massive butt (tip broken off), are both white and patinated, and are the implements referred to in the text.

page 103 note 3 They have been termed ‘plateauliths’ by Mr. Lewis Abbott.

page 104 note 1 This specimen, found close to the 500 feet contour, may have been made near the spot where found. Professor Rupert Jones, however, from the point of view of the denudation of the Weald, suggests that implements belonging to the Southern Drift, moving downward along the slopes of the Old Wealden Heights, and enclosed in mud or clay, might travel a considerable distance without being subject to contusion.

page 104 note 2 Bullen, , “Eolithic Implements”: Trans. Victoria Institute, 1901, vol. xxxiii, p. 196.Google Scholar

page 104 note 3 “Geol. of Country round Ringwood,” p. 36. The specimen is preserved in the Prestwich Collection in the Geological Gallery of the British Museum (Natural History), in the tenth drawer, left-hand tier.

page 105 note 1 The writer had previously found hollow curved scrapers at the summit of Alum Chine and on Hinton Admiral Common in May, 1895, and a derived specimen at Jumper's Heath in November, 1893. These were shown to and approved by the late Sir Joseph Prestwich in 1893 and 1895 respectively.

page 105 note 2 “Antiquity of Man in Hampshire,” last page. King's Fordingbridge Almanac, 1903. An eolith from White Shoot Farm is figured in the text.

page 105 note 3 C. Eeid: “Geol. of Country round Eingwood,” p. 30.

page 105 note 4 4 Op. cit., p. 32, note.

page 106 note 1 Blackmore, in letter.

page 106 note 2 Westlake, in letter.

page 106 note 3 This is the highest point in the New Forest.

page 106 note 4 These lower terraces seem to correspond to those so successfully worked by Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in the Isle of Wight (Geol. Mag., Sept. 1900, pp. 406–410). They are inserted here merely to contrast the well-defined terraces yielding accepted Palæolithic forms and the higher Eolithic terraces.

page 106 note 5 Geol. of Country round Ring-wood, p. 34.

page 107 note 1 ibid., p. 36.

page 107 note 2 Joly: “Man before Metals,” 3rd ed., p. 196.

page 107 note 3 Jago, Royal Cornwall Gazette, Nov. 29, 1900: Eoyal Institution of Cornwall Annual Meeting. Mr. A. Pott (of Bath) writes, “I find I can get finer sparks from the quartz and Hint than from either with the pyrites.”

page 107 note 4 An illustration of how strike-a-lights of flint, found in the Dordogne Caves, may have been used is given in the Reliquiœ Aquitanicœ, Feb. 1870, pt. x, pp. 138, 139, figs. 36, 37.

page 108 note 1 For rationale of this bleaching of flints, see Codrington on the superficial deposits of the South of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1870, vol. xxvi, p. 528.Google Scholar