476 CERVUS. 
have not yet been able to ascertain: and alongside of the 
latter relic was part of the under jaw of a horse; an antler, 
probably of the red-deer; and also the greater part of a 
fine Roman urn of a dark colour. 
‘“‘It appears to me that there was an ancient dyke at 
the spot, and that the rill of water which ran into the 
Severn having in ages past been diverted into another 
channel, the dyke became gradually filled up by the allu- 
vium which is occasionally deposited upon the plains by — 
the floods of the river, and thereby all the relics were 
buried at the great depth at which they lay; and in proof 
of this, the stratum on which they rested was muddy grit, 
such as we find at the bottom of water-courses. It would 
have taken an immense time for these relics to have been 
buried upon the surface of a level plain at the depth they 
were, for I have shown in my before-mentioned work that 
the alluvium upon the level plains on the borders of the 
Severn has only accumulated about four feet since the 
Roman time.” 
Mr. Allies informs me that a coin of Marcus Aurelius 
was found at the depth of about thirty feet, just by where 
the south gates of the lock stand. The antlers of the large 
Stag, of which I received figures, have the expanded and 
branched summits characteristic of the ‘crowned Hart 2 
the breadth of this expansion is not less than eighteen 
inches; the total length of the antler, in a straight line, 
is two feet. That of a second antler is two feet seven 
inches. Mr. Dixon, of Worthing, has found antlers of 
Red-deer, with Roman and British antiquities, in the super- 
ficial deposits at Selsey and Bracklesham. An almost en- 
tire skeleton of a large Cervus Hlaphus has been found in 
sand several feet beneath the present bed of the Ouse, in 
the Lewes levels. 
