ABSTRACT

Saale age likewise disputed, and the reader will easily guess that in these paragraphs we are necessarily passing by a good deal of such current controversy. At any rate, in East Anglia the Riss-Wiirm inter-glacial stage may be recognized in the famous lake-beds of Hoxne in Suffolk, lying as they do above the Middle Boulder-Clay that we have correlated with the Riss, and below the Upper Boulder-Clay or ‘ Upper Chalky Drift’ laid by the ensuing glaciation, which should accordingly repre­ sent the Wiirm i of the Alps. The hand-axes of Hoxne (Fig. i, 7) first discovered as long ago as 1797, are beautiful examples of the Late or * Upper’ phase of the Acheulian of Western Europe. A related industry is present in the contemporary deposits of the ‘ 50-foot terrace’ or Taplow stage of aggradation on the Thames (Fig. 1,11). The brick-earths of Crayford, with their fine specimens of the Middle Levallois culture now also de­ veloping, suggest by their fossils no more than a moderate climate, but on the Somme, e.g. at Montieres near Amiens, a Middle Levallois industry is associated with a warm-climate fauna, which perhaps represents the height of this inter­ glacial.