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Excavations at Brundon, Suffolk (1935–37)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

J. Reid Moir  and
A. Tindell Hopwood
J. Reid Moir
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geology, British Museum (Natural History)
A. Tindell Hopwood
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geology, British Museum (Natural History)
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For several years prior to 1935, the Ipswich Museum, through the kindness of Mr P. H. Jordan, had been enriched by gifts of fossil mammalian bones and teeth found in a gravel pit at Brundon, near Sudbury, Suffolk. From my occasional visits to this excavation, it was clear that a very rich bone bed existed there, and discoveries from time to time, of flint implements in the gravel, led me to conclude that excavations conducted at this site would yield good results. This was confirmed by the geological features of the section, which appeared to show a stratified gravel resting upon, and overlaid by, glacial deposits, thus affording an opportunity of examining that by no means common phenomenon—a true inter-glacial bed.

I communicated with my friend Professor P. G. H. Boswell, F.R.S., who, after an examination of the section, agreed with me that it would repay detailed research. Work was begun by means of a grant from the British Association, which appointed the following as a committee to undertake the research: Professor W. B. R. King, O.B.E. (chairman), Mr Guy Maynard (Secretary), Mr D. F. W. Baden-Powell, Professor P. G. H. Boswell, O.B.E., F.R.S., Mr J. Reid Moir, F.R.S., Mr K. P. Oakley, Mr C. D. Ovey, Dr J. D. Solomon, and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1939 , pp. 1 - 32
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1939

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