This lies about 2½ miles S.W. of Seaton, on Beer Head, which is an isolated and the most westerly mass of chalk in England, at a height of approximately 450-ft. O.D., at the extreme top and S.W. edge of the catchment basin of the Axe.

Up to the present, all artifacts found have been picked up in 4 or 5 large ploughed fields on a plateau immediately behind the part of Beer Head known as South Down. These fields are divided from the cliff-edge by a strip of undisturbed turf only a few hundred yards in width. An aerial photograph shows this apparently level turf to be a network of small divisions and boundaries of various shapes, and several parallel curved lines or rows, all of which continue to where the cliff breaks away and which are untraceable from ground level.

The specimen to which this note refers was found by Mr. Stephen Notcutt, of Ipswich, who has kindly allowed me to illustrate, and to describe it. This important implement was lying among some largish stones upon the beach, exposed at low water, at the mouth of the River Deben, Bawdsey, Suffolk, and was derived, in all probability, from some ancient bed of gravel occurring higher up the valley.

It will be realised by an examination of the coloured illustration (Plate XII.), the publication of which has been made possible by certain generous donations to the Illustration Fund, that this specimen conforms to a well-known type of axe (the “Thames Pick”) of the Early Neolithic period, and. at the same time, exhibits a colouration such as, so far as my knowledge extends, has only been found, hitherto, in Suffolk associated with flint implements referable to the Lower Palæolithic-Chellean-phase.