Abstract
IN his presidential address before the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia on Oct. 7, Mr. J. P. T. Burchell took as his subject the relation of Neanthropic man to the ice age. Mr. Burchell pointed out that a convenient datum line in the quest for the correct geological horizons of the successive cultural stages is provided by the deposits of the 100 ft. terrace of the Thames, and the fact that north of the Thames the Acheulean and Mousterian cultures overlay the lower Boulder Clay. Recent work on the upper glacial deposits of the Yorkshire coast and the estuary of the Humber was correlated by Mr. Burchell with the discoveries made in the Brown Boulder Clay of Hunstanton by J. Reid Moir, and advanced in evidence of a late Pleistocene, Aurignacian-Upper Mousterian stage having been succeeded by climatic conditions which resulted in the formation of the Brown Boulder Clay of the Hunstanton and Lincolnshire coast and of the Coombe deposits (? Boulder Clay) of Yorkshire. Examination of the Lower Estuarine Clay of Northern Ireland had revealed a palæolithic industry of Magdalenian character which must predate the formation of that deposit.
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