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some ochreous flint flakes, apparently of Palæolithic age, one of them trimmed.

Fig. 455e.—Caddington.1/2		Fig. 455f.—Caddington.1/2

At Harpenden, 81/2 miles from the source of the Lea, and not far from the stream, he has obtained a few ochreous palæolithic flakes. At Wheathampstead, a few miles further down the Lea, he also met with a few ochreous flakes in gravel near the railway station.

Fig. 455g.—Caddington.1/2		Fig. 455h.—Wheathampstead.1/2

In gravel brought from No Man's Land, a common about a mile south of Wheathampstead, the late Rev. Dr. Griffiths, of Sandridge, found two small ovate implements of whitened flint,^[1] one of which he presented to my collection. Mr. Worthington Smith, on visiting the spot in 1886, discovered a rude implement of nearly the same character in situ in the gravel, and has lent me the block,^[2] Fig. 455h, on which it is represented. He subsequently found an implement with only one edge and the point

1. Trans. Herts Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. viii., 1896, pl. xi. 4.
2. Op. cit., p. 180, fig. 125. Essex Nat., vol. i. p. 36.