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| 1434 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1647 | ||||||||
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Wallingford | Item No.: | 40 | No. of Sheets: | 1 (folded) |
| Title: | Letter from Mr T.H. Powell of 116 Denmark Hill, London, to an unnamed person, probably Mr Percy Manning. | ||||
| Content: | Powell writes concerning the Palaeolithic gravels of Oxfordshire and Berkshire in the neighbourhood of Wallingford. He refers to 'Hedges' Wallingford, page 28', where there is printed a letter by Captain Trollope giving a locality where he had found Neolithic and Palaeolithic implements. Powell disagrees with the assertion made in the publication that no Neoliths were found on or in the vicinity of Wittenham Hill. He writes that he has found Neoliths on the Hill himself, including a small hammerstone he found on the summit and an arrow head he found in the field on the Oxfordshire side of the river. He mentions Turners Court gravel pit (also referred to in the letter by Captian Trollope) as being the first place where a Palaeolithic implement was found, saying that a few specimens from there are in the Reading Museum and a few in the collection of Mr Morgan, the Master of Wallingford Grammar School. Powell adds that the finds at Turners Court prompted him to ask among men working at Rumbolds and Goulds Grove gravel pits about implements and that over the space of 20 years received about 30 specimens from Rumbolds and 2 or 3 from Goulds Grove. He mentions that he received 1 specimen from a sand pit near Rush Court and that Mr Morgan received a number from a pit on the Berkshire Hills near Wallingford. He writes that no mammalia contemporaneous with the Palaeolithic man have been found at Rumbolds, Goulds Grove or Turners Court pits, but that he has some mammoth, rhinocerous and horse teeth from a pit on Chapel Lane in Benson and that some were found in a gravel pit at the back of the National School which passed into the possession of Mr J.K. Hedges. He goes on to discuss the type of stone in the area. | ||||
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