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Investigations at Knovde Farm Pit. 



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FIG. 3.— PORTION OK FACE OF OCHREOUS GRAVEL AT 

 BACK OF PLATFORM. 



A. Surface Boil with mesoliths. B. Hard travel composed of fair-sized 



worn fiints. 0. Ochreous ijravel. D. Masses of B in C. E. Ochreous 



gravel showing stratiflcatioii. F. Large flints, many fresh from chalk 



and clay. 



however, spiiietinies adheres very closely to the upper face of the 

 stones. Often an implement lies partly in the silt and partly in 

 the ochreous gravel. If the stone has lain flat, and has not been 

 moved much after its owner let it fall, the upper face will be found 

 more or less striated by means, probably, of some particles of the 

 fine sand, and, it may be, also, slightly whitey-bluish, showing 

 incipient decay. The under face, on the contrary, will not be 

 found striated, and will show, by the adherence of ochreous matter, 

 by its clearer surface and faint suspicion of green or yellow tinge, 

 that it has lain in the said ochreous gravel. 



Let us now step across the platform and examine the face of 

 gravel behind it. Here may be found immediately beneath the 

 turf certain light grey-blue flaked flints of dry appearance, which 

 I take to be of a mesolithic age. With them, or near them, at 

 times is found a paheolithic implement, also very " dry," as the 



