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at Mickleton Tunnel ;' " bones of elephants " at Shipton-on- 

 Stour, Bourton-on-the-Water and Ascot-under-Wychwood ;^ 

 and remains of Elephas priviigenis, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Cer- 

 vus tarandus and Bos, (a late Pleistocene assemblage) at 

 Ganicox Pit, Stroud.^ 



There is no evidence that man inhabited the Cotteswolds 

 during the Glacial Epoch. No remains of Palseohthic Man 

 have been found in the district, but there are on the hills 

 numerous remains of Neohthic villages, burial places and 

 flint-implements. 



IV. — The Avon Valley Drift 

 In the various explanations of the origin of the Cotteswold 

 Drift, references have been made to that part of the Avon 

 Valley forming the northern boundary of the hills ; but the 

 minute descriptions by several writers, including Strickland,* 

 Lloyd,5 and Wilson^ render unnecessary any detailed account 

 of the superficial deposits. 



The records of large boulders are very few, considering 

 that the eastern ice is said to have advanced as far as the Vale 

 of Evesham. They may have been SM^ept away by floods 

 from the melting ice and buried in the deeper troughs of the 

 lower reaches, just as we find them in the valley of the York- 

 . shire Calder at Mytholmroyd, Mirfield and Wakefield. The 

 distinctive boulders are not, however, found in the Severn 

 Valley or lower down in the estuary or on the shores of the 

 Bristol Channel. 



A boulder of Leicestershire Granophyre found in the gravel 

 pit at Loxley Road, Stratford-on-Avon, measured about 2 ft. 

 6 ins. X I ft. 9 in. x i ft. 6 ins.^ Lucy records from Throck- 

 morton a piece- of coarse granite and a small block of Millstone 

 Grit.^ His supposition that the latter is striated is probably 

 erroneous, as the Millstone Grit is one of the rocks least capable 

 of accepting or retaining striae. Lloyd describes the following : 

 at Charlton, a Felstone, 4 ft. X i ft. 8 in. X i ft. 4 m.^ and at 



I Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc., vol. ix., p. 26. 2 Lucy, Proc. Cottesw. Nat. F.C., vol. v., p. 123 ; 

 see also Hull, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xi., pp. 490-2. 3 Lucy, Proc. Cottesw. Nat. F.C., vol. v. 

 pp. 90 and 122. Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc., vol. xi., p. 490. 



4 Memoirs, by Jardine, pp. 88-110. 5 Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvi , pp. 202-25. 



6 Ibid., vol. xxvi., pp. 192-202. 7 F. W. Harmer, Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixiii, p. 499. 



8 Lucy, Proc. Cottesw. Nat. F.C., vol. v., p. 87. 9 Lloyd, Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc., 



vol. xxvi., p. 213. 



