...found at Hoxne in Norfolk in 1797, expressed the view that they might have been deposited there at 'a very remote period indeed; even beyond that of the present world'. Frere was unusually observant in his description of the strata which overlaid the site and in which...

...large extinct animals. Frere not only realised that the stones were artefacts, but also attributed them to 'a very remote period indeed; even beyond that of the present world'. But despite publication in Archaeologia, the journal of the Society of Antiquaries, Frere 's discovery...

...association with the bones of animals no longer found in England, meant that these artifacts must date from "a very remote period indeed; even beyond that of the present world."" Historians have often commented on the failure of Frere's contemporaries to recognize the antiquity...

...period, the sea had flooded the land. "The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed; even beyond that of the present world" (in Grayson 1983:57). Frere was a catastrophist, a supporter of the geological view that there had...

...Henri de Cleuziou. were "fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. [They lived in] a very remote period indeed; even beyond that of the present world." (Incidentally, John Frere's great-great-greatgranddaughter was Mary Leakey, wife of Louis Leakey and...

...which the implements were found that he wrote an account of his discovery, claiming that they belonged to "a very remote period, indeed, even beyond that of the present world." 1828 In this year Tournal demonstrated the association of Man with a Quaternary fauna in the grotto...