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Bronze Age find in Cheshire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
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The geology of Piltdown.—A memoir on the geology of the country near Lewes has just been issued by H.M. Stationery Office, price 2s. 6d., with coloured drift-map separate, price 2s. It has been written for the Geological Survey by Mr. H. J. Osborne White, and contains a sectional diagram of the deposits at Barkham near Piltdown, showing the position of the skull; also a diagram by Mr. F. H. Edmonds showing the slope of the river Ouse and that of the Piltdown terrace about 70 ft. above it. The remains of Eoanthropus are held to be contemporary with the formation of the Barkham gravel in the early Pleistocene; and ‘at present the balance of opinion favours Sir Arthur Smith Woodward's interpretation’ of the individual as belonging to a distinct genus of the Hominidae. Piddinghoe and Rodwell are the only other sites in the area that have yielded palaeolithic implements. The incapacity to spell Cervus elaphus correctly seems to be shared by the official printers (p. 66).
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- Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1927
References
page 62 note 1 O. G. S. Crawford, op. cit., fig. on p. 96.
page 62 note 2 Bronze Implements, fig. 124.
page 74 note 1 Bligh Bond and Camm, Roodscreens, etc., ii, 324.