Bibliography - British Geological Survey

in the Red Crag of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Piltdown find identified by Smith Woodward as Stegodon, but
subsequently referred to Elephas cf. planifrons by Matsumoto 1918, is not noticed.)
Pope, M. 2012. Piltdown re-excavated. In: Piltdown – 100 years on, Geological Society London, Burlington
House, Piccadilly, 18th December 2012: abstract book / compiled by R. T. J. Moody, pp. 22–23, including
photos. (Two test pits were excavated at the site of the original Piltdown discovery at Barkham Manor. The
work has produced samples for dating, gravel class size analysis and pollen work and it is hoped in the
course of time to produce an account of the gravels, which appear to be genuine Pleistocene sediment.)
Pope, M. 2013. Sussex can take no pride in Piltdown. British Archaeology, no. 128, 50–51. (An expanded
account of the investigation described in Pope 2012. The excavation at Barkham Manor was undertaken in
Nov 2012. Not reproduced in either of these papers are some humorous re-enactments by Pope’s team, in
which they attempted to replicate two contemporary photographs of the original Piltdown excavations
featuring Dawson, Smith Woodward and the labourer, Venus Hargreaves.)
Postlethwaite, F. J. M. 1953. [Letter defending his step-father, Charles Dawson, from accusations of forgery.]
The Times, 25 Nov, 9. (‘Charles Dawson was an unassuming and thoroughly honest man and very painstaking,
as when he wrote The History of Hastings Castle, entailing years of research. From an early age he was interested
in flint implements and fossils, uncovering the bones of some saurian near Hastings. He exercised his
great general knowledge in many ways, discovering natural gas at Heathfield and becoming an authority on
Sussex iron. His hobbies extended in many directions, but it is doubtful whether he could be described as a
great expert in any single subject... Charles Dawson was at all times far too honest and faithful to his research
to have been accessory to any faking whatsoever.’)
Preece, R. C. 1990. Alfred Santer Kennard (1970–1948): his contribution to malacology, Quaternary
research and the Geologists’ Association. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 101 (3), 239–258.
(‘Although Kennard believed in eoliths, he was always sceptical about the Piltdown discoveries. He not only
questioned whether [the bone implement] could really have been cut when fresh (Discussion in Dawson &
Woodward, 1915) but even doubted the authenticity of the Piltdown eoliths themselves (Kennard, 1947).
According to Weiner (1955), Kennard let it be known on several occasions in the 1940’s that he believed
Piltdown man to be a hoax and that he knew the identity of the perpetrator. This knowledge undoubtedly
results from his close association with the Ightham Circle, and several members of it have been implicated
in the forgery.’)
Prosser, C. 2009. The Piltdown Skull Site: the rise and fall of Britain’s first geological National Nature
Reserve and its place in the history of nature conservation. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 120
(1), 79–88. (The Piltdown Skull Site at Barkham Manor was one of the first sites in Britain to be considered
for acquisition and listing as a National Nature Reserve (NNR). In Sept 1950 a small ‘witness section’ was
opened up close to the site of the original finds (Toombs 1952). To preserve the section for future scientific
study it was bricked-in on two sides, save for a couple of small glass doors on either side of the trench. The
site was acquired by the Nature Conservancy on 3 Dec 1951, and formally declared a NNR on 19 May 1952.
It would subsequently earn notoriety as the first NNR to be revoked, on 7 Feb 1955. See Anon 1954d)
Pryce, E. (see Daniel 1986)
Puccioni, N. 1913. Appunti intorno al fragmento mandibolare fossile di Piltdown (Sussex). Archivio per
l’Anthropologia e la Etnologia (Firenze), 43, 167‒175. (Argues against the Piltdown jaw and skull
belonging to the same individual, and suggests that the jaw is more reminiscent of a Neanderthal than a
chimpanzee, this latter assertion presumably being in response to the suggestion of Waterston 1913.)
Puccioni, N. 1914. Morphologie du maxillaire inférieur. L’Anthropologie, 25, 291‒321. (Piltdown jaw,
p. 315, etc, in which he largely reaffirms his earlier views)
Pycraft, W. P. 1912. The most ancient inhabitant of England: the newly-found Sussex man. Illustrated
London News, 141 (28 Dec), 958, etc. (Pycraft, an osteologist at the Natural History Museum, was consulted
by Smith Woodward on the restoration of the Piltdown remains. His article includes the first drawing of the
restored jaw and a reconstruction in profile of the head of Piltdown man. In addition, an impressionistic
reconstruction of the ancient ‘Sussex man’, shown hunting on the banks of the River Ouse, was supplied by
the artist, A. Forestier. Woodward advised the artist on the reconstruction, which included hippos on the
evidence of teeth found at Piltdown. Forestier’s illustration is reproduced in Spencer 1990a, 52–53, and
Thomas 2002, 27, the latter slightly cropped. See entries under Forestier, 1912, 1913)