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period antecedent to the recognised Quarternary Glacial 
episode. Many drifts are met with in the Severn Valley that 
are purely fluviatile, such as the re-arranged mammaliferous 
gravels of Evesham, the oolite gravels of the neighbour- 
hood of Gloucester and Charlton Kings, some of which 
are due to re-arrangement of the Northern Drift in post- 
glacial times, and others to direct river action upon 
underlying and escarpment rocks. Some may be pre-glacial. 
There were ample evidences of oscillations of the level of 
the land in post-glacial times as I have shown, pretty 
clearly, in my paper on the submerged forest at Westbury- 
on-Severn, contributed to the Club. 
II. 
BY S. S. BUCKMAN, F.G.S.' 
A little more than half-a-mile east of Moreton-in-the 
Marsh Station, by the side of the road to Chipping Norton, 
and close to the headwaters of the River Evenlode, are two 
gravel pits, remarkable for the following points :— 
1.—There are no local materials from Jurassic rocks. 
2.—There are flint nodules, some of them large. 
3.—There are many fractured flints, some, those in the 
lower portion, somewhat waterworn ; others, in the upper 
portion, absolutely unabraded. 
4.—There are a number of very rounded quartz, 
quartzite, and other pebbles, presumably derived from 
Triassic conglomerates. 
1 An abstract of this paper was published in the Quarterly Journal Geological 
Society, Vol. lv., p. 220, 1899. Lantern slides were exhibited to the Club at the winter 
meeting, March 20th, 1900, and some remarks were made by the author.’ The substance 
of this paper was given on the occasion of the visit to Moreton, June 25th, 1gor. 
