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A Discovery of Pleistocene Bones and Flint Implements in a Gravel Pit at Dovercourt, Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

W. Underwood
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The discovery with which this paper deals was made by me in August, 1908. In the early part of that month, while walking in Upper Dovercourt, I noticed a gravel pit being excavated in a field overlooking the Stour Valley, and thinking it was a likely spot to find river drift implements, I interviewed the workmen, and found that though they knew nothing of humanly-flaked flints, they had noticed and preserved a number of bones, which, however, had unfortunately been sold to a local rag and bone merchant. The occurrence of these bones made me feel confident that flint implements must be associated with them; so I took a representative series of Palæolithic implements for the men to see, and explained to them that it was such things I wanted them to look for. I also took the opportunity of examining the stone heaps in the pit, and was fortunate enough to discover two Moustier-like implements, which, though of no great importance, confirmed me in my opinion as to the implementiferous nature of the gravel bed.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , 1913 , pp. 360 - 368
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1913

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1 All levels given are summit levels.

2 Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. of London. “On the discovery of a novel type of flint implement below the base of the Eed Crag of Suffolk.” Series B., Vol. 202, pp. 283–326Google Scholar, Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B.. F.R.S.; and Proc. Prehistoric Soc. of East Anglia, Vol. I., part I., “The Flint Implements of Sub-Crag Man,” J. Reid Moir, F.G.S.

3 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. of East Anglia, Vol. I., part III., “A series of Flint Implements from the Middle Glacial Gravel and Chalky Boulder Clay of Suffolk,” J. Reid Moir, F.G.S.