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Identifier: ancientstoneimpl00evan (find matches)
Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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aneous, and nearly white. Small portions of the original crustarc left at the base, and on one of the faces; the point has beenbroken off in ancient times. It was found in Thanington parish,en the surface, and not in the gravel, from which, however, it wasundoubtedly derived. Several other specimens have been foundin the same manner, among stones gathered from the surface of thedope of the southern side of the valley of the Stour, betweenThanington and Canterbury. I have a pointed implement, butunfortunately broken, which was found by Mr. F. Pratt Barlow, * Geologist, vol. iv. p. 391. THANINGTON, KENT. 541 jun., on a heap of stones, when he visited the spot with me in 1868.The gravel beds near Thanington, out of which the implementsappear to have come, must be from 80 to 100 feet above the river.Nearer Canterbury, at the back of Wmcheap, between the water-works and the gasometer, pits have been sunk in the gravel, at alower level, where the surface of the ground is about 29 feet above
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Fig. 463.—Thanington. $ the river, from which the pits are distant about 600 yards; andfrom this spot Mr. Brent has procured several well-wroughtimplements of various forms. One of these is shown in Fig. 464.*Its surface is lustrous, and of an ochreous colour, and the centralridge is water-worn. The gravel, which is about 12 feet in thickness, and rests on the * This specimen is also figured in Once a Week, June 19, 1869, p. 501. 542 RIVER-DRIFT IMPLEMENTS. (CHAT. XXI1T.

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