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THOUGH there is nothing very new to be said T about the archieology of the Channel Islands, some brief notes are here brought together because well-attested facts relating to such an angulus terraruw, are apt to escape attention. For example, in recent discussions concerning Deperet's proposed method of classifying the subdivisions of the Quaternary, namely, by giving weight primarily and chiefly to the indications afforded by ancient marine shorelines, I have come across no references to the rather striking data of this type provided by the islands (see, for example, my summary account of them in Archæologia, 62, 469–80). Thus, one Jersey cave, La Cotte de St. Ouen, exhibits a Mousterian industry with cordiform ‘points,’ i.e. belonging to a phase that is not the latest, as resting more or less directly on a marine deposit of sand and rolled pebbles forming the floor-bed of a cave at about 20 metres above present mean tide-level. On the other hand, another cave in Jersey, La Cotte de St. Brelade, contained the remains of a copious fauna, mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, etc., conjoined with the later of two well-represented phases of the Mousterian industry; from which fact it is fairly safe to argue that Jersey was then freely accessible from more spacious lands.
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MARETT, R. Archæology of the Channel Islands1. Nature 119, 20–22 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119020a0
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