SOME NEW SECTIONS AT ILFORD. I57 



[We have given a few pictures of the old Lodge in the text 

 and in Plate IV., which will serve to illustrate some points in 

 this very interesting paper of Mr. Love's. On reading 

 Mr. Waller's document, one remarks that in the description 

 of the second " house or keeper's lodge " at High Beach it 

 is said to be "built oftymber but after the ordinary manner" 

 (E.N. vii., page 84). Can these words be taken to indicate that 

 the " Create Standinge " on Dannett's Hill was not built after 

 the ordinary manner, but was of an exceptional character ? 



We shall be very glad to know from architects or students 

 of old buildings, whether any structure analogous to the Lodge 

 in its original state is known to exist. As at present advised, 

 the " Create Standinge " appears to be unique. — Ed. 



SOME NEW SECTIONS IN, AND CONTRI- 

 BUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF, THE 

 RIVER DRIFT OF THE UPHALL ESTATE, 

 ILFORD, ESSEX. 



By J. P. JOHNSON and G. WHITE. 



EVER since the days of the Uphall brickyard where Sir 

 Antonio Brady obtained the magnificent series of 

 mammalian remains which now occupies so prominent a position 

 in our National Collection, the small remnant of those remark- 

 ably fossiliferous beds of gravel, sand, and loam, have been 

 hidden from the geologist. It is true there was formerly a small 

 pit, about eight feet in width and nearly twice that in depth, 

 sunk in a corner of the famous brickfield itself, but as this was 

 half filled with timber and as it was practically unfossiliferous 

 (a fragment of bone was the reward of a whole afternoon's 

 search) it could not by any means be regarded as a representa- 

 tive section. Towards the end of July, i8gg, one of us had 

 occasion to visit the district on business and was delighted to 

 find that this pit, which is situated on the west side of Ilford (or 

 Barking) Lane had been enlarged and that another had been 

 opened close by, to supply building materials for the houses now 

 being erected on the classical site. A few enquiries amongst 

 the men at work in the first mentioned pit elicited the informa- 

 tion that they had come across several bones during the process 

 of excavation ; and they produced among other things a complete 

 left ramus of Rhinoceros Icptovhinm. The section showed a 

 fossiliferous bed of sand, four feet in thickness, passing down 



