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Excavations in a Dry Valley in Beer, S.E. Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

Gertrude  and
Roland MacAlpine Woods
Roland MacAlpine Woods
Affiliation:
Percy Sladen Memorial Research
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The object of this paper is to make known the existence of a wide-spread implementiferous deposit hitherto unknown in Devonshire, although comparable discoveries have been made in East Anglia by Mr. Reid Moir and in the Thames Valley by Mr. J. P. T. Burchell.

A brief preliminary statement appeared in Vol. VII, part 2, in “Notes on Excavations,” which reported our finding a number of flint implements which lay to a depth of 12 ft. below the surface of a dry valley in Bovey Lane, Beer.

These specimens were revealed in an artificial cutting made in search of water, when only the faces of the sections could be examined, but by aid of a grant from the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, we were later enabled to carry out two seasons of excavation.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , 1934 , pp. 354 - 365
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1934

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It is, however, worth mentioning that, whereas the evidence for Palaeolithic pottery in Europe rests upon evidence both exiguous and disputed, that derived from the excavation of a very considerable number of sealed cave deposits in western Europe points decisively in the opposite direction.—Editor.

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page 363 note 3 The average “Clactonian” angle from the Deposit proved to be 120°.