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Studies in the Palaeolithic Succession in England, No. III: Palaeoliths from St. Neots, Huntingdonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

T. T. Paterson  and
C. F. Tebbutt
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Palaeolithic artifacts were recorded from a terrace on the Great Ouse, near St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, in 1927, the chief source being a group of pits dug in what was formerly part of Paxton Park, on the left bank of the river in the parish of Little Paxton. Mr Tebbutt has since recovered many more artifacts from this site. Taken together, the material constitutes a working industry, which will be described in this paper.

A twelve-foot section, fig. 1, shows a basal layer (1) of boulders and large pebbles resting upon undisturbed Oxford Clay. One boulder of limestone measured two feet in length, and many other erratics showed the derivation of this layer from drift deposits of a preceding glacial stage. Bones and teeth of Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros antiquitatis, Rangifer tarandus, and Equus caballus were found here. This basal bed is not a solifluxion level in place, though it may represent a solifluxion layer which has been re-washed and sorted. Certainly the Oxford Clay has not been caught up into it, and the elements are uniformly water-laid, passing up, without break, into nine feet of compact, well-bedded, fluviatile gravels.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 13 , 1947 , pp. 37 - 46
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1947

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page 37 note 1 Tebbutt, C. F., with Marr, J. E. and Burkitt, M. C., Proc. Prehist. Soc. E. Anglia, V, 166Google Scholar.

page 38 note 1 Ibid., 168.

page 38 note 2 Ibid.

page 38 note 3 See Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1945, 8Google Scholar, footnote.

page 41 note 1 In most literature on the Acheulian, this end, away from the pointed extremity, is called the ‘butt,’ since it represents the handled portion of the presumed hand-axe, contrasting with the functional part, the point.

page 41 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1940, 13Google Scholar, fig. 9.

page 45 note 1 Paterson, T. T., Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1945, 1et seq.Google Scholar

page 45 note 2 loc. cit., 1927, 172, pl. III G.

page 45 note 3 Leakey, L. S. B., Adam's Ancestors (Methuen, 1934), 129et seq.Google Scholar

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page 46 note 2 Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1940, 169Google Scholar.

page 46 note 3 Also in South India.