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collection; and from the stony beach of Hampshire, opposite
the Isle of Wight, I have more than one hundred examples ;
some of these, until recently found by me, had been tossed
about so long in the sea that they were, when found, almost
as smooth as the ordinary large oval pebbles of the beach;
others of the beach implements have marine growths upon
them, both animal and vegetable.
In a paper read by me before the Anthropological Institute
on June 25th, 1878 (and published February, 1879), I men-
tioned for the first time various localities for Palaeolithic im-
plements at Lower Clapton, Shacklewell, Stoke Newington,
Edmonton, Tottenham, Waltham, and Cheshunt; these local-
ities I identified at that time with the Valley of the Lea. Since
then the implements, fossil bones, and shells have several times
been exhibited by me before the Anthropological Institute, the
British Archaeological Association, and once before the Archae-
ological Institute. The vegetable remains have been shown by
me before the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural
Society. I have also several times communicated the localities
for implements to 'Nature.' The positions on the Lea Valley
of my discovery are chiefly on the west bank; starting from the
south, the first place is London Fields, near Kingsland; then
Homerton, Hackney, Lower Clapton, Mildmay Park, South
Hornsey, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Shackle-
well, Stamford Hill, Tottenham, Edmonton, Enfield, Forty
Hill, Waltham, and Cheshunt. On the east bank, Plaistow,
Stratford, Leyton, Wanstead, Walthamstow, Leytonstone,
Higham Hill, West Ham, Forest Gate, and Upton. Leaving
the Lea Valley for the Roding, I may add Barking, East Ham,
and Ilford; and further east still, Grays Thurrock, Tilbury,
Mucking, Orsett, and Southend. All these localities were first
lighted on by myself, for no implements had been traced with
any certainty to the Lea till I found the stone tools in situ. One
implement had been previously found by Mr. John Evans at
Highbury, in the Valley of the Thames; another in a road at
Clapton by Mr. Gaviller; a third also in a road by Mr. Ans-
combe. These three examples no doubt raised strong pre-
sumptions of their local origin.