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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12960190415).jpg PALEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS AT CEAYFOED <br> 545 <br> the present surface the lowest nearly six feet lower This area was <br> thickly covered with chips for the space of about ten feet north and <br> south and as far as I know at present fifteen feet east and west <br> or parallel to the cliff; but I expect that it will be found to extend <br> further <br> The fragments of flint lay touching each other in parts to a thick- <br> ness of several inches and had fallen so lightly that in several places <br> there were minute cavities underneath the mass of larger and flatter <br> flakes <br> A few small pieces of bone were found immediately beneath the <br> layer ; but above could be seen fine specimens and smaller ones in <br> abundance mostly incrusted with sand cemented by iron oxide to <br> the bones and this occasionally included one or more flakes in the <br> mass fi g 2 Chips are found connected together by the same means <br> Pig 2 � A Flint Flahe ivhich has been used at the side and butt end <br> adherent by its upper surface to a portion of the sandy matrix <br> in ivhich it was found imbedded l atural size <br> The flakes when first taken from the sand are in most cases quite <br> new and clean always so on the lower side very slightly discoloured <br> with dust or iron on the upper Many are studded with small con- <br> cretions of white carbonate of lime <br> Though the workman had abundance of material to work on he <br> seems to have found the flints very obstinate as may be seen from <br> the difficulty he had in procuring good heart pieces of flint and the <br> patient way he chipped away the outside <br> That he worked on the spot is evident As I noticed before the <br> flakes lie lightly on each other ; they are perfectly free from the <br> slightest abrasion such as must have occurred had the edges rubbed <br> over each other by the action of water ; they did not fall from the <br> clifl into the water for occasionally long flakes broken in two have <br> been seen which could not have occurred had water intervened ; <br> Q J G S No 144 2p 36090936 111264 51125 Page 545 Text 36 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36090936 1880 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 36 1880 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36090936 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36090936 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12960190415 2015-08-26 15 50 40 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1880 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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