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TYPE I. (a.) Near the centre of the quarry (see 
Plate II.,) was found a pit, which commenced at the sur- 
face of the gravel, where it measured nine feet long, north 
and south, by three feet six inches wide. Half-way down 
the diameter of this pit was reduced to three feet six 
inches, leaving a projection on one side, which was con- 
tinued to the bottom. The total depth of the pit was 
three feet four inches. The sides had no artificial lining. 
The sequence of the different layers in the pit was as 
follows :—(1) Dirt-band with small teeth and bones. (2) 
Water-rolled stone-band, with teeth, bones, etc. (3) Fine 
gravelly band, with small stones and a few bones. (4) 
Black band. The last-named deposit, which lay in the 
bottom of the pit, was composed almost entirely of car- 
bonised wood, ash, and very fine soil. Throughout this 
layer, which was eleven inches in thickness, bones and 
fragments of pottery were found. The pit probably had 
been abandoned, and filled up by the action of the weather 
and infiltration. Neither the sides nor bottom showed any 
traces of the frequent use of a fire, such as reddened 
stones or soot. 
(b) Another pit of the same type was found as the 
gravel was worked back. It was smaller than the preced- 
ing, of a circular shape, with a diameter of two feet six 
inches and a depth in the gravel of two feet eight inches. 
In this pit we found the following sequence :—(1) Dirt- 
band. (2) Yellow loamy material with gravel. (3) Black 
band, comprising carbonised wood, ash, etc., in which were 
found a few bones and a fragment of pottery. 
(c) From the quarryman and others we heard of a pit 
which was found before our attention was directed to the 
quarry. It was described as having been about ten feet 
long, east and west, and four or five feet in width, with a 
depth of about four feet in the gravel. In this pit was 
found a boar’s tusk, a jaw, and other bones of pig, and some 
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