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Picture No 10638486
Date 22nd July 1938
Description Piltdown Man memorial, 1938.
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The site of the discovery of the Piltdown skull: the monolith memorial unveiled by Sir Keith Arthur on 22nd July 1938. The memorial was placed in the grounds of Barkham Manor at Piltdown, East Sussex, to mark the site of the discovery. Part of the inscription states 'Here, in the old river gravel, Mr. Charles Dawson ,F.S.A, found the fossil skull of Piltdown Man, 1912-13'. The spectacular find was revealed to be an elaborate hoax in 1953.
Source Photograph in the Illustrated London News, 30th July 1938, page 202.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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