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Two loan exhibitions were opened on January 4 in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum, at the head of the main staircase, containing respectively pre-Crag flints from Suffolk and palæoliths from the Raised Beach and Coombe Rock of Sussex. Mr. Reid Moir's exhibit is intended to show at least four periods, indicated by different patinations, for the rostro-carinates and other types from the Bone-bed at the base of the Crag; and one example in particular, which has a sandy deposit adhering, is held to prove its flaking prior to the Diestian deposits of the Lower Pliocene. Excavations by Mr. J. B. Calkin at Slindon Park, between Chichester and Arundel, have produced a series of worked flints which can be dated geologically, as some (mostly rolled) were found in the upper level of the Raised Beach there (surface-level 135 ft. O.D.), others on the top of the Beach and in the lower part of the Coombe Rock above it. Sufficient specimens have been found to prove that the Raised Beach dates from late St. Acheul times; and the Coombe Rock covered a Levallois working-floor as at North-fleet. The Raised Beach a little south, at a height of 80–90 ft. O.D., has not produced enough to establish its identity.
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Archæological Exhibitions at the British Museum. Nature 133, 19 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133019c0
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