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On Some Flint Implements Beneath Blown Sand in Northern France
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2013
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The implements forming the subject of this note were found at the base of the Blown Sand Dunes which extend along the coast of Pas de Calais and attain, in the neighbourhood of Etaples, a height of 60 metres.
The principal sites are grouped about the outstanding pinacle of sand immediately opposite the Etaples Military Cemetery, and are on the east of the road to Boulogne and about one mile out of Etaples.
This pinacle of sand is the highest dune seen from the road (it reaches up to about 50 metres) and it is in the dunes ranging north and south of this pinacle, where the wind has scooped out hollows in the western face, and reached down to the underlying chalk and gravel, that the implements and flakes occur so abundantly.
Generally speaking there are low dunes bordering the Canche River, but on the east of the main road they rise in a fairly pronounced range to between 40 and 50 metres, then they fall away to about 25-30 metres and rise again, ¼ to ½ a mile further inland to about 60 metres.
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page 588 note * The metre contour lines on sketch map are copied from a military map which is inaccurate and does not show this valley-like feature at all.
page 589 note * Gravel fairly describes the material found at Sections 1 & 2 where so marked, but at the other places the material appeared to be the heavy residue remaining after the removal of the sand by wind.
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page 592 note * Many of the implements recall Grimes Graves to mind, but I failed to find any signs of shafts. It must be remembered that the area of bare chalk is very small.