18 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1901 
extending for 45 yards along the bank, having the upstream 
end nearly at right angles to the base, from which the apex 
is about 15 feet distant. The deposit consists of a dark 
brown peaty mass, amongst which are scattered large and 
small branches, roots and rootlets; here and there are 
to be seen on the surface some large boles and a stump 
or two. I found here an acorn and a hazel nut. Excava- 
tion proves the presence of boles and stools below the 
surface, and Plate II., fig. 1., shows a bole lying half in 
the peat and half in the sub-stratum of blue marl. The 
river at all times washes the edge, and it was only by - 
waiting till the mud was frozen hard and a coat of ice 
had formed on the water, that I was enabled to get into 
a position to take this photograph showing the bole, 
and the thickness of the deposit, which is here about 10 
inches. A bole about 10 inches in diameter is exposed 
for quite foot of its length. 
I estimate that the part at the river’s brink lies 12 feet 
below the level of the top of the bank bordering on the 
stream; the bank is covered by water during the highest 
tides. Plate I., fig. 2, shows the roots passing down into the 
blue marl below, and the position of the deposit relative to 
the bank is seen in Plate II., fig. I. 
Proceeding up stream the bank begins to come river- 
wards again, the blue marl stratum to widen, and at a 
distance of 150 yards we meet with another set of remains 
much less extensive and inferior in interest to that first 
examined. It has been washed away to a greater amount, 
there is very little peat left, and the remains are for the 
most part stools, all of them submerged except at very low 
water. From this spot an antler was taken some years ago. 
Though these two patches stand isolated from one 
another during the time when the river is at its normal 
height, low water allows the remains of roots to be seen 
in the Red Marl forming the river bottom, extending from 
