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UNDER ” News and Views” in NATURE of October 19, page 638, the discovery at Swanscombe of a human skull fragment by Mr. Marsden is recorded and the note says, inter alia, ” The bone was associated with Acheulean flint implements”. We should like to put on record that in our experience the middle gravel of the 100-ft. terrace, in which the bone was found, contains, in addition to Acheulean hand-axes and flake tools, artefacts of Clacton III type closely resembling those of High Lodge, and also a few flakes exhibiting a Levalloisian technique.
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OAKLEY, K., LEAKEY, L. Fossil Human Occipital Bone from Thames Gravels. Nature 136, 916–917 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136916d0
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