The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . FLOWER FLIXT IMPLEMENTS. Fig. 6.—Flint Implement from Thetford. 53. 54 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. at Hoxne, Icklingham, and Thetford—these places being situated atthe angles of an acute-angled triangle ; and if we suppose that theimplements were indeed carried down by the streams near whichthey are found, we must conclude that not only these three rivers,but also the Somme, the Avon, the Great Ouse, and some others, inPicardy, in Hants, and in Kent, of the existence of which there areno longer the slightest traces—rivers,
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . FLOWER FLIXT IMPLEMENTS. Fig. 6.—Flint Implement from Thetford. 53. 54 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. at Hoxne, Icklingham, and Thetford—these places being situated atthe angles of an acute-angled triangle ; and if we suppose that theimplements were indeed carried down by the streams near whichthey are found, we must conclude that not only these three rivers,but also the Somme, the Avon, the Great Ouse, and some others, inPicardy, in Hants, and in Kent, of the existence of which there areno longer the slightest traces—rivers, be it remembered, lying farapart from each other, and belonging to different water-systems—were all during one and the same geological epoch flowing throughcountries in which these worked flints had been fabricated, andoverflowing their banks and carrying away the implements in theircourse. With reference to this question it is also important to consider theposition in which the implements are usually found. When theyoccur in profusion, as at St. Acheul and Thetford, and some other places, they are seldom found in t
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