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By the Rev. H. SHAEN SOLLY, M.A. 



17 ABLY in June, 1909, while a sewer was being 

 constructed in Ashley-road, Upper Park- 

 stone, a large boulder was discovered 8 or 

 10ft. below the surface. It was noticed 

 at the side of the road by Mr. Le Jeune, 

 close to Scott's woodyard, near the bottom 

 of the dip not far from the top of Constitu- 

 tion Hill. It was subsequently presented by 

 Mr. Budden, the contractor, to the Museum 

 of the Branksome Free Library, and now 

 reposes safely in the grounds of that Institution. Its present 

 length is 3ft. 4in., and its greatest girth 4ft. 6in., with a 

 weight of at least half a ton. Originally, its size and weight 

 must have been somewhat more, especially as some portion 

 of it was broken off before it was raised to the surface. The 

 interest attaching to it concerns the question How came it 

 to be deposited where it was found ? It lay in the bed of 

 Plateau gravel which here overlies the Bagshot Sands. The 



