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A CLOSE examination of the implement-containing deposits of the Lower Thames Valley has led us to realise that they are to be correlated with certain others in East Anglia. During the course of our investigations we have observed that the Boyn Hill or ‘100-ft.’ terrace, which at Hornchurch is cut in the Kimmeridgic Chalky Boulder-clay (2nd glacial phase), and at Dartford attains a surface-level of 137 feet above O.D., contains no pene-contemporaneous handaxes of greater age than that of the St. Acheul 1 period; whilst the coarse, and usually unstratified, melt-water gravels which rest upon the Coombe Rock include derived Early Mousterian (Levallois) implements and tortoise-cores, in addition to artefacts of earlier epochs.
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BURCHELL, J., MOIR, J. Implementiferous Deposits of East Anglia and the Lower Thames Valley. Nature 130, 95–96 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130095b0
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