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lies 6 feet of loamy or clayey " Plateau " gravel, which 

 extends for miles over this country. 



(83) Compared with other pits in the valley there are 

 several peculiarities to be noted : — 



(i) Its very sandy character, whereas loam is the 

 usual matrix. ; 



(2) The numerous pipes — some even 20 yards in 



diameter, of brown loam, or nearly pure brick 

 earth. 



(3) The chalk over much of the base of the pit is 



relaid to the extent sometimes of 2 or 3 feet, 

 with yellow pebbles scattered in it. 



(4) In some parts a large proportion of the flints 



are cracked, but frost pitted flints are seldom 

 found. 



(84) Some hundreds of tons of gravel have been 

 moved daily and have yielded in the past two years 

 about 200 Palaeolithic implements. In type they closely 

 resemble those of St. Acheul. The large and very rude 

 Palaeoliths of the Chelleen type are also represented. 



(85) Far more numerous than PalseoHths are these 

 Eoliths ; the workmen sifting the gravel roughly at the 

 lowest levels where the Eoliths are most numerous will 

 pick out about five to the cubic yard, most with the bulb 

 of percussion. They are quite unrolled, and rarely 

 scratched. The presumption accordingly is that we are 

 close to the habitat of their owners, except in the case of 

 the quite occasional much rolled Pala^olith or Eolith. 



(86) A collection of several hundred specimens fell 

 readily and almost completely into the various divisions 

 of the classification already referred to. The bulbed 

 flakes fell at once into one of the three categories of 

 scrapers, push planes, and knives ; occasionally a drill, 

 anvil, or hammer might be found with the bulb, and but 



