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Museum was cut about 24 feet from the base, and shews a 

 diameter of 3 feet. 



The. tree was found at the point marked "b" on the map, 

 lying in a slanting position, the butt being on the edge of the 

 peat 9 ft, from the surface of the ground, and the small end 

 5 ft. 6 in. in the peat, therefore the latter was buried to a depth 

 of 14 ft. 6 in. 



Although a diligent search was made whilst the works were 

 in progress, it was two years before any shells were discovered. 

 They were few in number and occurred in the silt in a kind 

 of nest or pocket, from 4 to 6 feet below the surface, (marked 

 on map E.,) and which it will be seen is close to the Severn. On 

 examination they were found to be Tellina solidula, a shell which 

 occurs in the lower part of the Severn at the present day. Where 

 the peat was the thickest, and within about two feet of the bottom 

 of it, were found a fine head of Cervus Elaphus, antlers and jaw 

 bones of rather a small deer, head of horse, and Bos longifrons, 

 skull of a dog, and tusk of the boar. 



On showing Prof. Chtjech, of Cirencester, the head of Cervus 

 Elaphus, he pointed out to me what had escaped my observation, 

 that the antlers had been cut off apparently by some rude 

 implement. 



The bottom of the peat was about the height of mean low- 

 water mark in the Severn, and the difference between that and 

 the highest spring tides, and the greatest point to which the 

 water recedes, represents about 35 feet below high-water. 



About 8 feet of fine silt, with some clay in it, covered up the 

 peat, which reposed upon a fine clay, varying from a few inches 

 to four feet in thickness, and so reduced apparently by attrition 

 as to be fit for Potter's work. In it were Northern Drift 

 pebbles, some small boulders, and a little flint. The clay rested 

 on an eroded surface of the Old Eed Marl, fi-om which formation it 

 was evidently derived ; but in places the marl rock below was 

 partly decomposed from, as I believe, the draining of water out 

 of the superincumbent clay. Where the clay was thinnest the 

 pebbles assumed the form of a thin band ; and a few Northern 

 Drift pebbles occurred in the peat as well as in the silt above. 



