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A Series of pre-Palæolithic Implements from Darmsden, Suffolk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2013
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The excavation which has yielded the flint implements to be described in this paper is situated on the farm occupied by Mr. W. Wilson, of Darmsden Hall, Suffolk, a place about eight miles north-west of Ipswich. The pit occurs at a height of about 180 ft. O.D., and on the edge of the western slope of the valley of the Gıpping. (See Ordnance Survey Map, Suffolk (East), Sheet LXVI., 5, Field 5a.) The deposit in which the pit is sunk belongs evidently to the plateau series, and was laid down prior to the complete erosion of the Gipping Valley. The exposed section shows 6 in. surface humus and about 8 to 10 feet of deposit, composed almost exclusively of black Tertiary pebbles (such as occur in the Woolwich and Reading beds) mixed with some amount of fine sand, which in places shows signs of stratification. A few chalk flints, somewhat abraded, occur with the pebbles, the whole resting upon fine stoneless sand. No fossils of any sort have been met with in ihe excavation, and the author is not familiar with any other deposit of a similar nature in East Suffolk.
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page 210 note * The author is greatly indebted to Mr. Wilson for permission to visit the pit and collect specimens.
page 211 note * For an account of such characteristics see “Proceedings Prehistoric Society of East Anglia,” Vol. 1, pp. 171–184Google Scholar, J. Reid Moir, “The Natural Fracture of Flint and its Bearing upon Rudimentary Flint Implements.”
page 212 note * See “Proceedings Prehistoric Society of East Anglia,” Vol. I., pp. 171–184Google Scholar.
page 212 note * This is, perhaps, due to their rounded surfaces, which very often give rise to a glancing blow not having the same fracturing effect as one falling upon a more or less flat surface.