354 Fossil Bones of the Elephant and Deer. 



had just been discovered in a gravel pit in the valley of the 

 Stour close by. On going to the spot, I saw some of the 

 bones lying in the bed of gravel, and others which had been 

 very recently removed from it. 



The bed of gravel whence the bones, &c, were taken is 

 composed of flint gravel, with boulders of various other rocks 

 embedded in a whitish drift sand ; and is about 10 feet above 

 the river Stour, 100 yards from it, and on its right bank as 

 we descend the stream. The following is a section of the 

 deposit, and faces the north : — Ferruginous gravel, with 

 flints, &c. ; 3 ft. Brown clay, with rounded fragments of 

 chalk interspersed; 2ft. Fossil bones, in sandy gravel; 7ft. 

 Coarse drift sand ; depth unknown. 



Fossil Bones of the Elephant. — A tooth of a full-grown 

 elephant. A tooth, apparently, of a young elephant; the 

 tooth being only 5 in. long on the face, by 2j in. wide. A 

 fragment of a tooth, the same width as the last ; viz. 2j in. 

 Tusks of elephants : several having been found ; but in such 

 a forward state of decomposition, that they perished on the 

 first attack of the atmosphere. A tibia of an elephant, 1 ft. 

 11 in. in length; truncate at both ends. Part of a femur, 

 7 in. in diameter. Several other large bones in fragments ; 

 the substance of several of these fragments 1 in. thick. 



Fossil Bones of the Deer. — Horns of a large species ; 

 teeth of a large species ; a scapular, and a phalangial bone ; 

 leg bones, 9 in. long, 2 in. in diameter. 



All these bones are in the possession of the proprietor of 

 the estate on which they were found ; except the full-grown 

 elephant's tooth, which has been presented to a friend in the 

 neighbourhood: and it is but justice to the proprietor to add, 

 that he most readily meets the wishes of every enquirer after 

 these interesting relics; and affords every information and 

 facility to strangers visiting his grounds for the purpose of 

 surveying the natural beauties of this interesting glen. I am 

 not aware of any fossil bones of the elephant having been 

 found previously in this part of Essex. 



Stanway, near Colchester, Essex, April 11. 1835. 



[In the bed of blue clay near Western Road, Brighton, 

 workmen employed by Mr. Lambert in digging a well found, 

 in Jan. 1835, at 20 ft. or 30 ft. deep, a cylindrical fragment, 

 1 ft. long ; which was, under Mr. Lambert's direction, pre- 

 served, and presented to Dr. Mantell, who pronounced it to 

 be a portion of the tusk of a young elephant. Bones and 

 teeth of elephants have occasionally been found in the same 

 bed of blue clay at Hove brick-works. [Bury and Suffolk 

 Herald, Jan. 28. 1835.) 



