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Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, and due to Mr. W. Read, C.E., untillately a resident of Southampton. I take these later discoveries first, as being nearer the sources ofthe rivers. The implements obtained by Mr. Read have comefrom four different excavations in the gravel, at some distancefrom each other, three of them on Southampton Common, all ofwhich I have through his courtesy had the opportunity ofexamining in his company, and the other at Freemantle, to thewest of the town, about 60 feet above mean tide-level. The first * Flint Chips, p. 45. >u RIVER-DRIFT IMPLEMENTS. (chap. XXIII. of those on the Common is on the south side, close by the roadleading to the cemetery, where a section of gravel about 6 feetin thickness is exposed. It consists principally of subangularflints and Lower Tertiary pebbles mixed with a few of quartz,in a loose sandy matrix, and with some sandy and marly seamsin places. At the base of the gravel was found the .pointedimplement shown in Fig. 465. It is stained of an ochreous colour,
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Fig. 465.—Southampton. £ and has a projection on one side, towards the base, like that on theimplement from Thetford, Fig. 427. One face is more carefullychipped than the other, and the edges and angles are slightlywater-worn. The elevation of the ground, at the spot where itwas found, is estimated to be 86 feet above the mean sea-level.* In another small pit, at a rather higher level, and close to thenorth-east corner of the cemetery, at a depth of 5 feet from the sur-face, an oval implement was found by Mr. Read, in situ, in the gravel, • Codrington, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1870, vol. xxvi. p. 53. SOUTHAMPTON. 545 which here attains a thickness of about 8 feet. In tins, as also inthe preceding case, a bed of brick-earth or loess has been removedfrom above the gravel. The surface of this implement is ochreousand polished, and its angles are water-worn. The periphery ismuch twisted, like that of Fig. 434, from Santon Downham. At the north-west corner of the Common, fully half a

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