PILE-DWELLING SITE AT SKITT S HILL, BRAINTREE. 



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etc. Below is projected the additional filling found by the hole 

 that was dug below the level of the brick-making excavation. 



I.— Sandy clay mixed with wood. This layer fairly well conforms to the 

 first spit, 12 inches deep; it represents the upper portion of the relic-bed, where 

 in former diggings the greater proportion of relics of human agency were found. 



Nine burnt flints and three flint-flakes occurred. 



2 and 2 a.— The lower portion of the relic-bed, which was very inegular and 

 consisted for the most part of sand, one to two feet deep. At the end nearest 

 the bank of the stream (a) the soil was very black, containing a quantity of 

 vegetable remains, but this only continued for a distance of about 17 feet, when 

 it merged into white sand ; (2 a) which extended for another 12 feet, but this 

 stopped about five feet short of the end of the layer above it. 



In the white sand very little wood or other organic matter occurred. Three 



SURFACE 



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FIG. 5.— ENLARGED PORTION OF RELIC-BED ON LINE A — F. 



burnt flints, three rib-bones, and seven vertebra?, (?) red-deer. A quantity of 

 hazel nuts were found in the black soil. 



3. — Fine, grey, washed clay, which ran irregularly, rising almost to the top of 

 spit II. at A and to the top of spit I. at F, forming a basin in which the 

 relic-bed rested. 



No wood or other objects occurred in the clay. 



3A.— Fine grey, washed clay, the continuation of the deposit underlying the 

 relic-bed and extending below the base of the brickmaker's excavation to the 

 depth of one foot. 



No organic remains. 



4. — Log lying horizontally, four feet six inches long. 



5. — Large log, 15 feet long, lying along the edge of the relic-bed, see plan, 

 Fig. 3- 



5 A. — Small log lying transversely. 



6. — A layer of small pebbles and white sand, one inch thick. 



7. — Very black peaty deposit, containing quantities of leaves, eight inches 

 thick, hazel nuts, acorns, andplentiful remains of insects. 



