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Implements of Les Eyzies-Type and a Working-Floor in the River Cray Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

R. H. Chandler
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During 1911 Mr. Reginald A. Smith, F.S.A., mentioned to me that some long flakes which fitted together had been presented to the British Museum by Captain R. A. Vansittart, and were described as being from North Cray gravel-pit. Prior to this I had visited the pit on one or two occasions and noted the section exposed, but without finding any implements or flakes; however, on receipt of this information another visit was made and the workmen questioned.

It appeared that the flakes mentioned had been found at the junction of the gravel with the alluvium by my informant, some nine or ten years ago, when the gravel on the east bank of the Cray was being worked (indicated in Fig. 1), but nothing had been found since.

Nevertheless, the pit was kept under observation and, after some dozens of visits, I obtained from the man, on June 10th, 1912, the implement (Fig. 2) and a few flakes; on another occasion the “worked-angle” flake (Fig. 4), and since then a few simple flakes—in all, one implement, two cores, one hammer-stone, one worked-angle flake, two flakes showing signs of use, and eighteen simple flakes.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , 1915 , pp. 80 - 98
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1915

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page 81 note * The boundary between North Cray and Foots Cray is along the mill leat shown in Fig. 1.

page 83 note * Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. XXV., p. 61 (1914)Google Scholar, Fig. 3.

page 84 note * An artificial lake had occupied part of this site at one time and the ground has been turned over from the two mill leats.

page 85 note * It is probably not possible to distinguish between the simple, unworked flakes of the later Cave periods, except very broadly, and then it is more a matter of judging the facies than by any particular characteristic.

page 86 note * Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, pp. 170 and 248 et seq. (1875)Google Scholar, but no mention is made of this particular implement.

page 87 note * Proc. Prehistoric Soc. E. Anglia, Vol. I., p. 210 (1912)Google Scholar.

page 88 note * Congrès Préhistorique de France, Beauvais (1909), p. 115Google Scholar.

page 88 note † To this remark it is but fair to state M. Commont contributes the following note on reading this paper:— “In my article I argued on the Mousterian industry, but not in the much younger Aurignacian, which has a different method of working.” But it seems that if a blow on small striking face produces large bulbs in Mousterian times it should be a physical fact which holds good in later times.

page 88 note ‡ The amount of Solutré material in the British Museum is very small.

page 88 note § Examples from Les Eyzies in drawers inaccessible to the public amount to about another dozen.

page 89 note * I have one “worked-angle” flake from what may be regarded as a Neolithic site in the Isle of Wight, one from a Neolithic settlement in Surrey, and one from a site between tide-marks on the coast. Dr. Allen Sturge has very many from sites described in his paper before mentioned.

page 89 note † Examples worked on one or both sides are included in the B.M. list given previously.

page 89 note ‡ Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain (2nd Edn., 1897), p. 292Google Scholar.

page 90 note * Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. XXV. (1914), p. 61Google Scholar.

page 90 note † Ibid.

page 90 note ‡ Quart. Journ. Geol, Soc., Vol. LXVIII. (1912), p. 213Google Scholar.

page 90 note § Mr. Hazzledine Warren has recorded that the brick-earth, as well as the gravel, at Ponder's End is cut off by the alluvium. Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol XXII. (1911), p. 169Google Scholar.

page 90 note ∥ See Fig. 3, p. 63, Proc. Geol Assoc., Vol. XXV. (1914)Google Scholar.

page 91 note * Stone Age Guide, Brit. Mus. (2nd Edn., 1911), p. 49Google Scholar.

page 94 note * Probably many will be discovered in collections now attention has been drawn to them. P. S.—Mr. Reginald Smith sends me the following notes of “Scraper-cores” he has seen recently in collections:—(i.) in Christchurch Mansion Museum, marbled bluish-grey, about 5 in. long, found in Russell Road, Ipswich; (ii.) in Miss Nina Layard's collection, from the surface near Grime's Graves, Weeting, Norfolk.

page 94 note † Op. cit., p. 68.

page 96 note * Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. XVIII. (1903), p. 188Google Scholar.

page 96 note † It will be remembered that the only scraper from North Cray is of this type.

page 96 note ‡ Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. XIX. (1905), p. 76Google Scholar.

page 96 note § Journ. Anthrop. Inst., Vol. XXV. (1896), p.p. 122, 130, and 137Google Scholar.