The Cromer Forest Bed Implements

Abstract

RESEARCHES I have carried out recently, by means of grants from the Royal Society, relating to the artefacts found in the basal layer of the Cromer Forest Bed, have shown that some six periods of flaking are recognizable on these specimens. I conclude, therefore, that the deposit containing them is composed, in part, of the wreckage of a land surface, or surfaces, on which the makers of the flint implements lived prior to the laying down of the Forest Bed. the various groups of artefacts from the base of this deposit differ not only in their patination and condition, but also, it seems, in their forms and flaking. One of the assemblages of specimens referable, apparently, to the earlier part of the Cromer Forest Bed, is that composed of the well-known ochreous-yellow implements, and flakes found upon the foreshore site at Cromer.