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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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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.
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