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Rh in Man, the Primeval Savage. The bed in which it lay consisted of red loam, filling a pocket in the chalk, and about 100 feet above the level of the Lark at Fornham. The section from above downwards showed 18 inches of surface soil, 8 feet of red loam, and then a brown loam with angular gravels. Two of the flint implements are here figured, from which it will be seen that they belong to well-known types of the Acheuléen or



FIG. 21. Two Flint Implements from the Gravel-pits at Bury St Edmunds (natural size). (After H. Prigg.)

early Moustérien age (Fig. 21). Similar pockets on the same hill are said to have furnished Palæolithic implements, grinders of the mammoth, and also the skeleton of a man at a depth of 8 feet (Journ. Anthrop. Inst., vol. xiv., p. 51).

The Galley Hill Skeleton. A human skull and limb-bones found in the Palæolithic terrace-gravel at Galley Hill, Kent, have been described by Mr E. T. Newton, F.R.S., F.G.S., in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for August 1895. According to this report the bones now in question were unearthed as far back as September 1888, under the following circumstances, as narrated by parties who had seen them in situ.

1. Extract from a letter to Mr Newton by Mr Robert Elliot, Camberwell, dated July 1894:—

It was my custom to visit the pits at Milton Street, Swanscombe, Galley Hill, and neighbouring excavations, every fortnight regularly (in search of flint