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removed. A brief examination of the spot convinced me that I should be 

 repaid for careful search. 



On Wednesday, Feb. 5th, 1890, accompanied by Mr. A. "Wheeler, 

 we visited the excavation, and, as far as was then possible, made a 

 thorough examination. The finding of a few fragments of charcoal by 

 Mr. Wheeler encouraged us to continue our search, resulting, on that 

 occasion, in finding a few pieces of pottery, and a few fragments of bone. 



From the men we learnt that they had found a very large tooth, I 

 (which they believed to be an elephant's,) a large limpet shell, and a few! 

 pieces of bone ; nothing else had attracted their attention. 



On this, and many subsequent visits, the following observations and 

 "finds " were made : — The mass of flints occupied a very slight hollow 

 in the hill side, was al)out 100 feet long, and 20 feet wide, but somewhat 

 irregular ; the length lay iu the direction of the valley. 



The greatest depth of the flints was, by actual measurement, six 

 feet ; towards the lower part of the slope they thinned out, while the 

 upper side terminated in several jilaces ([uite abruptly, and was, at these 

 terminations, from three feet to four feet deep. The first foot of flints, 

 measuring from the surface, was more or less mixed with soil, but below 

 that, and reaching to the hard clean surface of the chalk, upon which 

 the flints rested, was perfectly clean, excepting a layer of soft clayey 

 deposit, about three inches thick, which lay directly upon the surface of 

 the chalk. It was in this clay that we found the fragments of charcoal 

 and pottery, on the occasion of the first visit, and which, on other visits, 

 yielded us several leg bones of the horse (?) One tooth, unmistakably 

 belonging to a horse, (as did also the one previously found by the men), 

 and two other teeth, possibly also of a horse ; seven pot-stones and 

 several pieces of pottery, together in one cluster. The pottery was of 

 the unbaked, or but partially baked, kind. One piece was ornamented 

 with parallel lines close together. Several rounded (appai'ently water- 

 worn) pieces of lower green sand, some small pebbles, possibly of Tertiary 

 origin ; two limpet shells (Patella vulgata), these are peculiar as being 

 of more acute angle than those now found on the shore. The angle of 

 the shell of the existing species, taken in its longest dimensions, varies 

 from 60° to 90°, while the angle of the two found is 56". They arc also 

 somewhat thicker than the existing specimens ; this peculiarity may, 

 however, be accidental. One oyster shell was also found. 



The most valuable objects, however, are two Hint implements, one 

 that might have been used as a chopper, it being thick and heavy, five 

 inches long, two and one-eighth inches wide, and one and a quarter inches 

 thick at the thickest side — the opposite side js chipped to a rough cutting 

 edge. No such implement is described in Evans' celebrated work. The 

 other is a skilfully fashioned fabricator or chisel, four inches long, similar 

 to that illustrated by Evans, on page 156 of his " Stone Implements." 

 Two very rough flake-scrapers (?), and two small cores were also 

 found. Scattered among the stones, but principally embedded in the 



