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The Bearing of the Drayson Theory on the Problems Presented by Striated Neolithic Flints
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2013
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I propose in this address to give you some account of my work during the past two or three years bearing on the difficult problems of prehistoric chronology. You may remember that to the first number of the “Proceedings” I contributed a paper on this subject. Since that time I have been continuously occupied with it, and I believe I have made some advance, both as regards facts and as regards theory.
It will be within the recollection of you all, that in the paper alluded to, the fact round which everything else pivoted was the striation of certain classes of neolithic flints. The cardinal fact to which I would call attention to-day is the occurrence of other classes of presumably neolithic flints which show the striking peculiarity of being patinated on one side only, or if both sides are patinated, one side is very much more so than the other. My attention was drawn to the peculiarity in this way: For some time past large numbers of flint implements and flakes have been brought to me by the labourers on an estate a few miles from Icklingham.
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page 256 note * It is also seen in a very marked degree in the large series of implements brought by Mr. H. W. Seton-Karr from the neighbourhood of the flint mines in the Wady Shekh, specimens of which are in most museums.
page 257 note * Since this Address was delivered, a remarkable discovery has been made at Icklingham, bearing on the subject of one-sided patination. This is dealt with in a postscript.
page 262 note * “Fertile” is used to denote strata with human remains. “Sterile” indicates strata with no trace of human remains.
page 265 note * Drayson's calculations were carefully examined and worked through by Admiral Sir Algernon de Horsey, K.C.B. He confirmed their accuracy, and published his results in “Draysonia.” (Longman's, 1911).
page 273 note * Aphelion = greatest distance of the earth from the sun.
Perihelion = least distance of the earth from the sun.
page 288 note * This is reproduced in Fig. 1, from the diagram is Croll's “Climate and Time.”
page 293 note * I am indebted for the gift of a very fine specimen from this locality to the kindness of Mr. J. S. Warburton, of Methwold.