Implements at Acton

Abstract

IN reply to the letter of Mr. Worthington G. Smith (NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 141), the Palæolithic implements at Acton I found in a gravel pit on the hill west of the North London Railway, and from spread gravel which was local. Those I obtained at Hammersmith occurred in gravel raised on a piece of ground (Mr. Butt's) south of Great Church Lane, where building is going on. They consisted of a hollow scraper, drill, &c., which I readily found; but the implements here seem ruder than at Acton, and less easy of detection. I also found implements in gravel raised from the foundations of the neighbouring houses, which had been spread on some newly-made roads south of Shepherd's Bush, between the Uxbridge Road and Addison Road Stations. I see no reason for supposing that the implements here or at Hammersmith occur under different conditions from those at Acton.