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MR. A. S. BARNES says that Mr. J. Reid Moir's "criterion of human work fails when applied to similar series of Eocene date". This is not true, at least for the Bull-head Bed at the base of the Eocene in Suffolk, which was specially investigated by Moir1 in order to settle this question. Moir came to the conclusion that there are essential differences between fractured flints of Eocene age and those of later date described as eoliths, although occasional Eocene flints can be found which show a superficial resemblance to flints flaked intentionally.
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Moir, J. Reid, Proc. Prehist. Soc. East Anglia, 1, 4, 397 (1914).
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BADEN-POWELL, D. High-Angle Edge Flaking of Flint. Nature 153, 227 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153227b0
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