222 On the Recent Discovery of Flint Implements 
discussions on this border land, where archeology and geology 
naturally meet. 
A careful examination of a good series such as may be seen in 
the Christy or Blackmore Museums, or in the private collections 
of Mr. John Evans, Mr. J. W. Flower, or Mr. J. Wyatt of Bedford, 
would speedily convince any unprejudiced person, at all conversant 
with the natural fracture of flint, that these objects bear evidence 
of design, and are the result of man’s forethought and skill. Before 
however noticing these implements, it will be interesting to offer 
a few remarks upon the drift in the immediate vicinity of Salisbury. 
The brick-earth of Fisherton has long been known to geologists, 
a paper having been read by Sir Charles Lyell before the Geological 
Society of London as early as the year 1827. In 1854 the deposit 
was more fully described by Mr. Prestwich, and a careful list of the 
land and fresh-water shells was added by the late Mr. John Brown 
of Stanway. (Jcurn. of Geolog. Soc. vol. xi.) Fisherton was also 
noticed by Mr. Cunnington in a valuable paper on the “‘ Mammalian 
Drift of Wilts.,”” which appeared in the 4th vol. of the Society’s 
Magazine. And more recently in 1864, my friend Mr. John Evans 
accompanied his excellent account of the discovery of flint im- 
plements, with a greatly extended list of the Shells and Mammalian 
remains. This geological notoriety is well deserved, for no 
single spot in England has as yet produced so great a variety 
or so important a fauna as Fisherton; indeed remains of the 
spermophiles and lemmings have not as yet been found elsewhere 
in the drift of this country.! Other deposits of brick-earth and 
drift gravel occur in scattered patches along the whole course of the 
river Avon and its tributary streams, it will however be only 

1The late Dr. Falconer identified, amongst the fossils from the Mendip Caverns 
in the Williams collection, two lower jaws of a species of Spermophilus which 
he named S. erythrogenoides. I have not had an opportunity of examining 
these fossils, but think it probable they may prove the same as that described by 
Professor Kaup under the name of S, superciliosus. During the autumn of 
this year, Mr. J, W. Flower obtained from Wokey Hole the teeth and bones of 
many small rodents, which he kindly sent me for examination, amongst them 
I was pleased to find numerous remains of the Ringed Lemming Lemmustorquatus. 
Both these discoveries however are in Caves, the exact geological age of which it 
is always difficult to determine. 
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