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then, it would quite fit in with my theory to suppose that 
the material for these low-lying gravels had been obtained 
from the destruction of the original deposit made by the 
extended Evenlode in the Moreton valley; so that the 
Stour and the Avon have been engaged in taking north- 
ward and westward to a lower level the material which the 
Evenlode once brought southward. 
The fact that the gravel is so much confined to the 
Evenlode valley, seems to be another point against the 
submergence theory. If there was submergence to over 
400 feet, we ought to find a general distribution of the 
gravel over the country below that level. We should 
expect to find it banked up against the western face, and 
in the western valleys of the Cotteswolds as much as we 
do in this eastern side at Moreton; but I know of no such 
gravel in these positions on the western face, it is only in 
the low-lying river valleys. Nor would submergence to 
400 feet altogether solve the problem: there are drift flints 
at 600 feet around Stow.” They would fit in with a theory 
of continued bringing down of material by the Evenlode 
while cutting its valley; but submergence to 600 feet 
would mean a general distribution of drift over a large area 
of the Cotteswolds. 
It is more difficult on my theory to account for the 
presence of flints than for the Triassic material. It would 
be necessary to suppose that at the southern end of the 
Pennine range the Cretaceous rocks had formerly lain 
unconformably on Carboniferous and Triassic strata, as 
they do in the West of England; and that their denudation 
had left behind only the flints as relics in what were then 
the valleys of the headwaters of the Evenlode. 
The lithic character of the flints seems peculiar, and an 
examination thereof might give a clue as to their origin. 
rt To Mr George Gordon I am indebted for the following observation—that at 
Barrow Hill. Leafield, there are quartzites at an altitude of 600 feet. 
