Charlevoix county herald., 1913-03-08

the high plateau graves," as much as 700 feet
above level. The oldest of all these gravels
is very possibly OF Pliocene age, and is not
lated to the Thames valley or other existing
river valleys which OF later date than they
are. The gravel at Uckfeld (Piltdown) in which
the human jaw found. is only 120 feet above
sea level and not far from the River Ouse.
which flows past Lewes Probably a high pla-
teau gravel existed the top OF the chalk
which once stretched the Sussex Weald
and the gravels deposited much later at low
levels after the wearing away OF the great mass
of chalk lying over the Wealden beds contain
some material derived from these Oldest and
highest gravels and also some of the gravel de-
posted in every successive age the erosion
continued. So that this bottom gravel the
Sussex plain, only 120 feet above sea level is
likely to contain mixture and assortment of all
the preceding gravels.
Hence it very difficult to assign the bones
and the worked fints (shaped by mani found
In it to a definite age. Any fragment we pick
up may be old as the plateau gravels which
lay on the top of the chalk in the very early
Pleistocene or late Pliocene age. may belong
to as late period that of the actual deposit
OF the gravel bed in which we find 1t i'm
bedded
-le gravel about Piltdown is so thin layer
that it escaped attention from the officers of the
Geological Survey. 1t became known to Mr.
Dawson by the fact that local farmers dig
ging 1t and sitting it for mending roads. 1t
only exists on slightly raised parts OF the valley
of the Ouse, and its makeup" is very peculiar.
1t contains ironstone and deeply stained iron-sand
from the Weaden strata which it rests and
peculiar ruddy-brown broken fints, not very
numerous. which nearly all bits of "tabu-
lar flint, recalling those of the high plateau
gravel at Ightham. in Kent
Many of the nlnts In this Pitdown gravel have
been worked by early into rough imple-
ments They are of fat shape, often triangular
in area, and show but unmistakable
taking" of human workmanship. I and my CON-
panions picked up four from the surface OF a
powed field when visited Piltdown They are
rougher in workmanship than the Acheuilian or
even Chellean, implements of our better known
river terrace gravels. 1t is impossible to
ciate them with those from any other locality
that they seem to be earlier than any flint i'm
plements which be rightly called Chellean.
Later and more finely worked flint Implements
have not been found in this gravel.
But the most remarkable thing about this
gravel Is the discovery in il. by DR.. Smith Wood
ward and Mr.. Dawson, OF fragment OF a tooth
OF mastodon and OF fragments OF teeth OF the
Elephas NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which we're ex-
hibited TO the Geological society
These two animals are known to occur in PHO
Gene strata-and are not found as late as the
Pleistocene Tin this part OF the world. The
teeth of the elephant in question are very differ.
ent from those of the mammoth They are found
also in the Norfolk forest-bed and in one or two
"fssures" in the South Downs filed in by an
Client sands The remains of this elephant
abound in the PIiocene OF France and Italy
few fragmentary teeth OF hppopotamus
beaver. and horse, bit of a large deers antler
and the human Jaw and skull fragment complete
the list NJ animal remains 1t ia owing to the