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The Red Crag Shell Portrait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

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Owing to the continued expression of interest in the Red Crag Shell, which bears a crude carving of a human face upon it, and which my father first described so many years ago, the time seems ripe to collect the evidence regarding it. I wrote a letter to the “Geological Magazine” summarising the facts of the case, and giving the literature of the subject, and this was followed by a later note.

Many geologists and others have expressed themselves as desirous of seeing the shell, round which discussion and more or less heated opinion has revolved for thirty-two years. It was shown at the London meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, when the President, Dr. Sturge, proposed that a committee should be formed critically to examine and report on it. In the present paper, therefore, I shall confine myself to stating its history, and bringing together what little contemporary evidence there is regarding its discovery.

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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1913

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page 323 note 1 Stopes, H. “Traces of Man in the Crag.” Rep. Brit. Assoc., York, 1881, p. 700Google Scholar.

page 323 note 2 Stopes, M. C. “Human art in the Red Crag.” Geol. Mag., Feb., 1912, p. 95Google Scholar.

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page 324 note 5 Stopes, H. “Traces of Man in the Crag.” Rep. Brit. Assoc. Sci., York, 1881, p. 700Google Scholar.

page 325 note * The objections raised by Prof. Bonney to the flint implements recently reported from the Crag, do not apply to the Red Crag of Walton, which is a locality where exists a typical, thick, properly stratified deposit of the Red Crag. Prof. Bonney objected that the implement-containing crag is not in situ. The Walton Crag assuredly is in situ.

page 326 note 6 Newton, E. T. “The Evidence for the Existence of Man in the Tertiary Period.” Pres. Add. Geol. Assoc., 1897Google Scholar. Proc. Geol. Assoc., Vol. 15, 1899, p. 75Google Scholar.