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On the Palwolithic Hint Implements from 
| Knotole, Sabernake forest. 
By §S. B. Dixon. 
S(OSNOWLE is a detached hamlet in the parish of Little Bedwyn, 
i y. on the eastern borders of Savernake Forest. It is only a 
short distance from the old turnpike road leading from Marlborough 
to Hungerford, and about half-way between those towns. 
The Knoll, or Knowle (to which it owes its name) may be placed 
at 450 feet above sea level and some 50 feet above the level of 
the surrounding ground. About four miles in a south-westerly 
irection are the high chalk downs terminating, at the eastern 
end, in Martinsell Hill, and this range forms the northern 
escarpment of the Pewsey Vale. The subsoil of Knowle is 
Upper Chalk, and the gravel beds in which the implements 
‘are found cover the top of the Knoll to a depth of 10 to 12 
feet, thinning down as they follow the slope of the ground. 
eastern side only of these gravel beds has been excavated. 
gravels are mostly sharp, unrolled flints with an occasional 
polled pebble. They are more or less mixed with clay throughout. 
a rule they are closely compacted and require sharp blows from 
pickaxe to separate them. In one corner the gravels were 
er and mixed with a fine river silt—this being most probably 
ter re-deposit. The flints show few traces of rolling but appear 
ve been brought down from a higher deposit, which covered 
alk hills, mixed with sand and clay, and deposited in a mass. 
scasionally, towards the base of the gravels, the chalk is exposed, 
id when this is so, it appears to have been ploughed up and re- 
*posited with the gravel and clay. In places small beds of fine 
uartzose sand occur. The flint implements are found throughout 
the gravels, and there is no area or depth to which they can be 
