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MR. REID MOIR has submitted sixty of the yellow-stained worked flints from beneath the Forest Bed of the Cromer shore to me, and has asked me to add a few words to his brief report. They are a most impressive collection on account of their abundance, frequently large size, and uniform lustrous surface and orange-brown colour. I have no doubt of their having been shaped by man. Very usually one surface of the flint is a flat orange-brown area produced by a single blow. Others show flaking on both upper and lower surface. Later marginal chipping—subsequent to the ochreous staining of the flint—appears as blue-grey or as black conchoidal scars. Whilst most of the specimens appear to be eminently fitted for use as rubbers in skin-dressing, some show more complete resemblance to coarsely worked ovate implements of Chellean character, and others are distinctly rostro-carinate. The most remarkable among them is the extraordinarily large and heavy rostrate implement weighing 7 lb. 6 oz. It is 10 in. in length and measures 5 in. in breadth and 4 in. in thickness at the butt-end. This huge implement is most definitely shaped by flaking of undoubted human origin. It is almost free from ochreous-yellow stain. Careful drawings of it of the natural size must be published for the use of archæologists. The whole “find” deserves really accurate illustration by figures giving both the actual size and the natural colour. The cost of such illustration is beyond the resources of our learned societies, but may possibly be met by the generosity of those who have enthusiasm for “prehistorics.”
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LANKESTER, E. Flint Implements from Corner Forest Bed. Nature 106, 757 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106757a0
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