Abstract
I FIRST met Reid Moir so long ago as 1911. Rumours had been flying about that it had been demonstrated without cavil that the Garden of Eden had been close to Ipswich, that mankind's birthday had been thrown back millions of years, that the 'missing link' had been at last found; that all these startling new discoveries were the result of a Mr. Moir's finds in a gravel pit near Ipswich. The facts were that Moir, in business in Ipswich, instead of playing golf in his spare time, spent all his leisure in the gravel pits near his home in the hope of discovering the relies of early man. In this he was helped and backed up by the late Sir Ray Lankester, without whose aid even Reid Moir might have failed to 'get his ideas over'. The age of the gravels in question has never been doubted. They contain a rich fauna and belong to a period antedating the Croiner Forest bed: in the still current nomenclature they are late Pliocene in date. Moir claimed that in situ in these gravels he had found artefacts, that is, flints which had been chipped by man, and which for reasons given could not have been the result of natural operations.
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