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THE 25-foot raised beach is well marked all round the northern and eastern coast of Ireland, and is also recognisable on the opposite coast of England and in the Isle of Man. This post-Tertiary beach is contemporaneous with the Upper Estuarine Clays of the Belfast sections,1 and is certainly not later than early Neolithic. At different times worked flints have been obtained from this beach, notably from Larne, co. Antrim, and have been discussed, but no clue to their date or dates has been found. I have lately had the opportunity of carefully examining the section (Fig. 1 and 2) near Holywood, co. Down. From a 350-ft. exposure 683 worked flints were obtained.
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Praeger, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. iv., 1897.
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HOME, H. Worked Flints Obtained from “the 25-foot Raised Beach” near HolyWood, co. Down. Nature 90, 361 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090361a0
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