A sandstone plinth at Barkham
Manor, Sussex, England, which identifies the place
where the skull was 'found'. The inscription on
it reads :
Here, in
the old river gravel, Mr Charles Dawson, FSA,
found the fossil skull of Piltdown Man 1912-1913
The Piltdown skull was found in either 1908
or 1912 (precise timing unclear) by Charles Dawson and Sir
Arthur Smith Woodward and identified as the missing link between
apes and humans.
The finds were over a period. They were announced
in 1912 and further finds were made. Some finds were made
at the site of the monument, notably the jaw (found by Dawson
but with others there) and the canine tooth (found by Teilhard
de Chardin, with Dawson and Smith Woodard present). Dawson
received the skull fragments from workmen who discovered them
in 1908 (date uncertain and it is Dawson's story with no corroboration).
