Abstract
FOLLOWING the exhibition of Miss Garrod's finds on Mount Carmel, a series of flint implements has been arranged at the British Museum to illustrate the sequence of industries in the terrace-gravels south of Farnham, Surrey. Two cases at the head of the main staircase, in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, contain not only a number of accurately located specimens in the Sturge collection as presented by Major A. G. Wade, but also maps and diagrams showing the terraces of the Wey and the Pleistocene history of the Farnham branch of that river. The area has been recently surveyed by the Geological Survey (“The Geology of the Country around Alder-shot and Guildford, 1929”), and Mr. Henry Bury's papers in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society and Proceedings of the Geologists' Association have been freely drawn on in order to explain the importance of this area for the dating of terrace-deposits and the classification of implements. It may be eventually possible to identify these four levels with the recognised sequence of terraces in the middle and lower Thames; and the local river-captures should explain the presence of some typea and the absence of others in the Blackwater and Wey valleys. This exhibition will remain open until the middle of July.
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Palæolithic Gravels of Farnham. Nature 133, 680 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133680c0
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