Hand-Axes from Glacial Beds at Ipswich

• Published in: Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia
• Main Author: Moir, J. Reid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1933
• Subjects: General Medicine; Bolton; Flint; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958841800026673; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0958841800026673

As is known, there exists a widespread deposit of what I have called the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay, on the high ground in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, Suffolk. This accumulation is especially well developed to the north and east of the town where it forms the more or less flat plateau, the surface of which lies at approximately 150 O.D. I have already recorded the discoveries of flint implements in the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay in the brickfield of Bolton & Co., Ltd., to the north of Ipswich, and elsewhere. From these discoveries, which include that of an Early Mousterian hand-axe, of necessity re-described in this paper, I have concluded that the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay was laid down by an ice-sheet present in East Anglia at the close of Acheulean times, and is to be referred to the 3rd Glacial Period of this area. It is now my purpose to illustrate and describe three further specimens of Acheulean hand-axes derived from a deposit exposed in various sections in the plateau to the east of Ipswich.