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Further Researches in the Forest Bed of Cromer, Norfolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

J. Reid Moir
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During 1926 and 1927 my researches under the auspices of the Percy Sladen Trustees were continued upon the Cromer coast of Norfolk, and a quantity of additional evidence relating to the archæological contents of the Forest Bed obtained. The remarkable spreads of flints exposed at low tide upon the foreshore at Cromer, East Runton, West Runton, and Sheringham were again examined, while the Estuarine Beds and the Upper Freshwater Bed of the Forest Bed Series received also some amount of attention.

I have to record my thanks to Messrs. J. P. T. Burchell, H. H. Halls, Guy Maynard, and J. E. Sainty for valuable help during these researches.

The further examination of the large spreads of flint present upon the foreshore at Cromer, East Runton, West Runton, and Sheringham has yielded many new and interesting facts regarding them. These spreads all rest upon the chalk, which along the coast-line between Cromer and Sheringham is exposed in places at low tide. Moreover, though differing in extent, they all present, to the casual observer, a very similar appearance, and are without doubt at the present time being subjected to closely similar physical conditions.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , 1927 , pp. 273 - 281
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1927

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page 273 note * Moir, J. Reid, “The Great Flint Implements of Cromer, Norfolk.” Harrison, The Ancient House, Ipswich.

page 273 note † Moir, J. Reid, “Further Discoveries of Early Chellean Flint Implements in the Cromer Forest Bed of Norfolk.” Journ, R.A.I., Vol. LV., 1925Google Scholar. July to December.

page 273 note ‡ Moir, J. Reid, “Science Progress.” “Sea-action and the Flaking of Flint.” No. 87 January, 1928.

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