ABSTRACT

Miss D. A. E. Garrod has made the study of the upper palaeolithic industries much easier by demonstrating the existence of local 'Creswellian' culture in addition to the earlier industries of Solutre, proto-Solutre, and middle and lower Aurignac types. Flint implements that are possibly of Aurignac date have also been found at North Cray and Halling in the same county. Mr. J. Reid Moir's investigations of the deposits in the Gipping valley above Ipswich and in the Orwell estuary below the town have revealed a remarkable sequence of cultures. In the Flood-plain gravels of the Gipping he found at the top, under the humus, a layer of sand and loam containing neolithic implements and also some long flakes that might possibly belong to the La Madeleine period. A small cave on the south side of the cheddar Gorge, known as Soldier's Hole, for in 1929 Mr. R. F. Parry found magnificent Solutré leaf-shaped implements.