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of the Roman Ainphitheatre at Maumbury Rings, Dorchester, found many 
specimens which, though generally of typical form and markings, yet also 
yielded the vars. conoidea, minor, and sonata. 
In the Isle of Wight, Mr. C. Ashford noted a layer of //. aspersa and 
other shells at a depth of twelve to twenty inches, disclosed by the cutting 
of a cliff-path between Orchard and Mount’s Bay, Ventnor: and Mr. 
Kennard has detetted it in a Neolithic rain-wash on St. Catherine’s Down. 
In East Sussex, Mr. W. J. Lewis Abbott records a quantity of very large 
specimens from beneath about three feet of “ kitchen-midden” material in 
association with Littorina littorea, Patella vulgata, Cardium echinatum, 
Buccinum undatum, ete., at Hastings, all of which had probably been 
used as food. Mr. J. P. Johnson has found it in a Neolithic hill-wash at 
Brighton. In West Sussex, Mr. R. Miller Christy reports finding in 1878 
“assuredly pre-Roman specimens in association with Clausilia rolphii, 
Cyclostoma elegans, and Helia nemoralis, buried beneath the loose earth, 
filling up the pits within the Roman camp at Cissbury.” 
In East Kent, according to Kennard and Woodward, it is plentiful in 
Holocene deposits at Dover, one specimen being found on the horizon of 
Neolithic pottery ; and Mr. Kennard reports it from a probably post- 
Roman hill-wash at Folkestone. In West Kent, it is recorded by Mr. 
A. 8. Kennard from a pre-Roman deposit at Greenhithe; also from the 
base of a tumulus of early Romano-British age at Stanley’s Quarry, 
Ightham, and mixed with bone fragments and Roman pottery from the 
base of a rain-wash, two feet to six feet thick, on the site of a large 
Roman building at Darenth, excavated im 1894-5. 
In Surrey, the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen found a specimen at nine 
inches and one at ten-and-a-half inches deep in a pre-Roman deposit in 
Horseshoe Pit, Colley Hill, Reigate; and Kennard and Warren report. it 
from the alluvial marshy clay and carbonaceous silt disclosed by the 
excavations in ‘l'ooley street, Bermondsey. 
In South Essex, Kennard and Woodward record it from the pre-Roman 
alluvial marl of the river Lea, exposed by the excavations for the new 
reservoirs of the East London Waterworks Co. ; while Mr. J. French has 
found it im the alluvial shell-marl at Felstead ; and Dr. Corner discovered 
it associated with a wooden pin and Neolithic flakes, about eight feet deep, 
in alluvium, at New Park near White House, Lea Marshes. 
In Middlesex, Mr. A. Santer Kennard reports it from the bed of the 
Old Walbrook, amongst Roman remains at London Wall, and with those 
of the thirteenth century at Cloak lane; at America square it has been 
found in the Roman ditch, and at Houndsditch within the crevices of 
the old Roman wall. 
In Berks., Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys recorded it from the peat bed at Newbury. 
In Oxford, Kennard and Warren found an undoubted apical fragment of 
H. aspersa in a section through a ‘Thames deposit, about a mile south-east 
of Culham station, Clifton-Hampden. 
In Cambridge, Mrs. McKenny Hughes records it as plentiful in the 
Roman rubbish heaps at Chesterford and elsewhere about Cambridge, and 
occurring in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of its getting 
there subsequently. 
In-Glamorgan, Mr. J. Storrie records specimens being found during the 
excavation of the Roman villa at Llantwit Major near Cardiff. 
