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RIVER-DRIFT IMPLEMENTS.
[CHAP. XXIII.

A good series of these reconstructed implements is in the British Museum.


Fig. 455c.—Caddington. 1/2
Fig. 455d shows an ovate implement from the brown stony clay at Caddington. Fig. 455e represents a scraper, and Fig. 455f a pointed tool from the Palæolithic floor, and an ivory-white sharp-edged implement from the same source is illustrated in Fig. 455g. For all these figures,[1] I am indebted to Mr. Worthington Smith, as well as for very many acts of kindness.

A paper by Mr. Smith on Neolithic and Palæolithic scrapers, re-placed and re-worked, will be found in the Essex Naturalist.[2]

Fig. 455d.—Caddington. 1/2

At Mount Pleasant,[3] Kensworth, to the west, on the other side of the extension northwards of the valley, and at a height of 760 feet above Ordnance datum, or nearly 200 feet higher than the Caddington deposits, Mr. Worthington Smith has found

  1. Figs. 58, 69, 70, and 71, in "Man the Prim. Savage."
  2. Vol. ii., 1888, p. 67.
  3. Op. cit., p. 101, fig. 65.