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SINCE writing my note, as published in NATURE of November 3, p. 7, I have paid another visit to the British Museum, and seen a second implement from the Denbighshire caves, presented by Dr. Hicks and Mr. Luxmore. It is a small and highly-finished scraper, exactly agreeing with the Neolithic scrapers of Icklingham and Mildenhall, and with small scrapers found in caves of confessedly very late date. This scraper is quite sufficient to condemn any pre-Glacial theory, and it enables me to emphasize my former remark that the cave contents, instead of belonging to the earliest Palæolithic class, belong to the very latest. I do not believe that a similar scraper has ever been found in any really old, or even moderately old, Palæolithic river gravel. Such scrapers were only made in the most recent of Palæolithic times.
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SMITH, W. The Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves. Nature 37, 105 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037105a0
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