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A Levallois Side-scraper from the Brickearth at Yiewsley, Middlesex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

A. D. Lacaille
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Of late the Levallois industries of the Thames valley have attracted notice, and an endeavour has been made to show analogies with artifacts of this culture from northern France. In describing implements recovered from the deposits north of and slightly above the 100-ft. contour near Iver the present author drew particular attention to Levallois relics found in the red and grey brickearth overlying solifluxion gravel, with stratified gravel below. The difference between palaeoliths from the last named and those from the brickearth at Iver was commented on, and at the same time parallels were drawn with the specimens found near Yiewsley.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 55 - 57
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1938

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References

page 55 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xvi, 429–31.

page 55 note 2 Ibid.

page 56 note 1 In ascending order the sequence of the deposits exposed in a typical section is thus represented: (1) stratified gravel ill sorted at the base; (2) solifluxion gravel; (3) red brickearth, sometimes yellowish in the lower part, containing some small angular flints; (4) local capping of greyish loam with a few angular flints, mostly in the lower part; (5) topsoil. The principal references to the local deposits and their archaeological contents are: Brown, W. J. Allen in Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xiv, pt. iv, pp. 164–6Google Scholar; Marsden, J. G. in Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, vol. v, pt. iii, p. 297Google Scholar; Burchell, J. P. T. in Antiq. Journ. xiv, 33–9Google Scholar.

page 56 note 2 King, W. B. P. and Oakley, K. P. in Proc. Prehist. Soc. (1936), vol. ii, pt. i, pp. 72–3.Google Scholar

page 57 note 1 Map of the Geological Survey of England and Wales (1 in. to the mile), third edition, Sheet 255.

page 57 note 2 The heavy capping of brickearth overlying the Taplow terrace is part of the immense spread eastward from beyond Slough.