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reaches, sand, silt and mud in the less rapid and more embayed 

 curves and back rushes, leaving its footprints at various levels at 

 which it once flowed. What a history, too, do these deposits 

 unfold of the wear and tear of our so-called everlasting hills ! 

 For in most of the sections hitherto examined, and more especially 

 in the one about to be described, are specimens of all the forma- 

 tions between this and the Mendip Hills. This evidence I will 

 at once proceed to place before you in the section of the " Victoria 

 Gravel" pit, taken on the S.W. side, lately exposed, and 

 whence most of the recent " finds " have come. 



Section Victoria Gravel Pit, S.W. Side, 



Feet Inches 



These beds occur about 100 feet above the level of our present 

 Avon, and are therefore some of the highest gravels in our 

 neighbourhood yet opened up. In the soil overlying the gravel 

 an earthen pot was found, containing portions of bones apparently 

 calcined. The vessel was so rotten that it fell to pieces on 

 exposure to the air. From the character of the pottery it was 

 probably of the Romano-British period. Besides this there is 

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