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the eastern side of the Buggilde Street, about 200 yards to the 

 north of the lane leading from Harford Bridge to Slaughter 

 Manor. This occurrence of unfiaked flints is important, as 

 being among the very few on the Cotteswold Hills above an 

 elevation of about 650 feet. 



Lucy has noticed Drift pebbles on : — 

 Brailes Hill (607 feet above O.D.), at Wychford (731), Batsford (612), 

 Long Compton {730), Oakham, near Little Compton (555). Chapel House, 

 near Chipping Norton (721), Chipping Norton (716), Stow {700-740),' 

 Upper Slaughter (695), Shipton Downs (614), Wychwood Forest (556), 

 Northleach (554) and Taynton Common (700). 



Drift pebbles have been found on Meon Hill by Mr J. M. 

 Dixon, and together with unfiaked flints, at Tangley, by Dr 

 C. Callaway, Mr L. Richardson and myself. 



Buckland remarked that quartzite pebbles are abun- 

 dantly scattered on the high ground bordering the Evenlode 

 Valley.^ 



I have been unable to verify Lucy's record of the occur- 

 rence of " greenstone and Mountain Limestone pebbles with 

 encrinital stems " at Compton Scorpion (607 feet) near Chipping 

 Norton.^ 



Boulders and Stratified Drift Gravels. — Below elevations of 

 about 500 feet, the Drift pebbles and unflaked flints become 

 much more numerous and varied in character. They are 

 spread over the relatively low-lying ground of the Moreton 

 .Valley, and extend as far as the Mickleton ridge in the gap 

 between Ebrington and Dover's Hills. Associated with pebbles 

 and flints in the Moreton Valley are deposits of clay, sand, 

 fragments of red and white chalk, and large unworn chalk 

 flints and igneous and other rocks not traceable to an origin in 

 the Bunter rocks. No pebbles of Malvern or Scandinavian 

 rocks have, to my knowledge, been found on the Cotteswolds 

 or in the Moreton Valley. All the gravels contain varying 

 proportions of Jurassic detritus although in some cases, as at 

 Moreton-in-the-Marsh, the proportion is very small. 



No large erratic boulders have been recorded as occurring 

 on the Cotteswolds above 400 feet, the rock on the summit of 



1 Mr S. S. Buckman records flints in addition Proc. Cottesw. Nat. F.C., vol. xiv., p. 117. 



2 Reliq. Diluv. (1823), p. 231. 



3 Proc. Cottesw. Nat. F.C., vol. v., p. 98. In dealing with pebbles found scattered over the 

 surface, as at Compton Scorpion and other places above enumerated, great care is required in dis- 

 criminating between naturally and artificially introduced material. Carboniferous Limestone, Glee 

 Hill dolerite and Drift pebbles and flints are carried long distances for use in metalling roads, the 

 scraping? from which are spread over the fields. 



