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Rh a horse, have been found deep in the loess of the low-lying parts of the island, which, in some cases underlies the stratum containing remains of the early neolithic period; (c) the raised beaches of Jersey and the neighbourhood provide a problematic scale of emergencies and submergencies, into which may be fitted the particular emergence coinciding with the Moustérian occupation."

The most valuable result of the Jersey discovery is the direct evidence that, at the beginning of the Moustérien epoch, the island was part of the mainland of Europe. This inference suggests that the lands now represented as the British Isles were more elevated during the glacial and preceding interglacial periods than in the present day, and that then there was no sea hindrance between the cave-dwellers of Europe and Ireland, and probably land areas considerably farther west, but now submerged.