ADDITIONS TO THE PALAEOLITHIC FAUNA OF 

 THE UPHALL BRICKYARD, ILFORD, ESSEX. 



By J. P. JOHNSON, 

 {Formerly Hon. Curator, Geological and Palceontological Sections, Duln'ich College 



Museum). 



iN a previous papei' read before the Essex Field Club, my 

 friend Mr. G. White and I described some new sections 

 which had then been opened on the site of the famous Uphall 

 Brickyard. As a result of long and careful collecting from these 

 sections, we were able to add twenty-one mollusca, two of which 

 are extinct in Britain, and a rodent that is no longer a resident 

 of this island, to the known fauna of the Uphall beds. Since 

 tlien I have continued the work of investigation in the hope of 

 still further adding to our knowledge of these beds, and have 

 met with a fair measure of success. 



At the time the above-mentioned paper was submitted, the 

 first pit had already been filled in, but the second, which was 

 situated in the angle between Cecil Road and Ilford Lane, was 

 kept open until quite recently. 



Although the pit had then been cut back a considerable 

 distance, the section had not appreciably altered. It still showed 

 subangular flint gravel, with a few shells, passing upwards into 

 a fossiliferous bed of sand, the bed (b) of the accompanying 

 section, by S. V. Wood, of the old brickyard reproduced from 

 the Geological Magazine, vol. iii. (1866).- Foreign materials 

 were conspicuously abundant, and I recognised among 

 them pebbles of white quartz and of liver-cOloured quartzose 

 sandstone from the Bunter Conglomerate, of mottled cjuartzite 

 of the kind found in the Blackheath Pebble-bed, and of 

 flint derived from the Kentish Tertiaries. Above this stratified 

 deposit is a considerable thickness of modern debris containing 

 articles of all ages, from Neolithic implements to Nineteenth 

 Century crockery. 



On washing a large sample of the sand I obtained several 

 examples of a species of Ostracoda, .which Mr, D. J. Scourfield 

 has kindly identified as Hevpctocypvis veptans (Baird). It has not 

 been previously recorded from the Pleistocene deposits of Ilford, 

 but it is still living in the neighbourhood.^ 



1 J. p. Johnson and G. White. — " Some new sections in, and contributions to tlie 

 Fauna of, the River Drift of the Uphall Estate, Ilford." Esse.x Naturalist, vol. .\i. (iSyy), 

 pp. 157-160. 



2 The Editor is indebted to thu courtesy of Dr. Woodward for the use of this blocl<. 



3 D. J. Scourfield.— "The Entoniostraca of Epping Forest, part iii." Esse.\ 

 Naturalist, vol. 10 (189S) ; also "The Entomostraca of Wanstead Pa.ik,', Journ. Quekett 

 Micro. Club ser. 2, vol. v. (1893), 



