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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2013
The excavations which, with the flint implements and other relics discovered, it is the purpose of this paper to describe, commenced towards the end of February, 1919, and continued until July, 1920. The money to pay for the wages of the excavator, Baxter, was most generously supplied by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, and I wish to record my thanks for their invaluable help.
I have to acknowledge also, with gratitude the assistance given me in my researches by Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S., Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S., Professor J. E. Marr, F.R.S., Dr. Smith Woodard, F.R.S., Dr. Charles Andrews, F.R.S., Mr. Reginald Smith, and the owners of the various properties upon which the diggings were conducted.
The drawings which illustrate this paper are reproduced from work executed by Mr. E. T. Lingwood, to whom the science of prehistoric archæology is greatly indebted for his continued and invaluable help in the matter of illustrations.
* All the mammalian remains mentioned in this paper were identified by Dr. Charles Andrews, F.R.S.
† Unless otherwise stated the Survey Memoir mentioned in this paper, refers to “The Geology of the Country around Ipswich, Hadleigh and Felixstowe” (explanation of quarter-sheets 48N. W. and N.E.
* Sir Hugh Beavor, of Hargham Hall, Attleborough, Norfolk, to whom I wrote, informs me (August, 1921) that he cannot remember having seen any jaw bone in the collection of fossils belonging to his grandfather, Sir T. Beavor.
* In his “Antiquity of Man” (p.200) Keith gives an outline drawing of the Foxhall jaw-bone, and remarks that it is of the “modern” type, as compared with the same bone of the Neanderthal species of man.
* The Survey map (6ins. to one mile) Suffolk (East) Sheet LXXV. N.W. Second Edition 1905, shows two pits to the East of Bramford Works. These are, in all probability, Pits No. 1 and No. 2 to which this paper refers.
* All the specimens from the pits at Bramford, which are illustrated in this paper, have been flaked by humanly-directed percussion and the flakescars upon the flints are not of the kind produced by natural pressure.
