Abbott found his palæoliths under such circumstances as left no doubt that they were quite as old as the formation of the bed itself.
The types of flint implements, found at Hoxne in 1797, correspond to other palæoliths recovered from rolled gravel and clay of the glacial drift in the valleys of the Thames, the Somme, and the Seine.
Underneath lies the older Columbia gravel, which has also yielded—though in much fewer numbers,—palæoliths of primitive types.
But the evidence of antiquity is based most confidently on the discovery of palæoliths in situ in the true Philadelphia red gravel.
In this case a large number of palæoliths were found lying at a depth of twelve feet from the surface, in a gravelly soil containing fresh-water shells and bones of great size.
Abbott is inclined to attribute an Eskimo origin to some of the palæoliths of the Trenton gravel.
This type of work, however, lasted on to the age of the existing conditions, for perfectly sharp and fresh palæoliths are found on the desert as low down as the present high Nile.
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