210 EXCAVATIONS AT DEWLISH. 



at present, or on a level with the upper part of the existing 

 fissure, which was widened and deepened by the inflowing 

 water of the passing stream. His report and analyses possess 

 the highest value and interest, and are given in full. 



Mr. DEWEY (2) considers that the Dewlish Valley and 

 Stream have been little altered in relative shape and position ; 

 and the water that washed out the " trench " and filled it 

 with its present contents, he derives from " Cloud-bursts." 

 His most suggestive Report is also given in full, as well as 

 his instructive Analyses. 



A third theory derives the water from rapid melting of 

 accumulated masses of snow and ice, regards the elephant 

 bones as long precedent, and considers that they w r ere washed 

 in with the gravel which encloses them, and of which they 

 would thus form a constituent. 



Mr. CHARLES ANDREWS (3) reports, on the 19th of 

 January, 1915, that " the bones from Dewlish include nothing 

 of interest, and are, I should think, much more recent than 

 the Elephant remains." 



The "eoliths " were submitted to Mr. REID Mom (4) who 

 reported, 23rd August, 1914, that of " thirteen flints from 

 Dewlish, nine are nodules, and four are tabular specimens. 

 Their colour varies from yellow to ochreous red, and several 

 of them are much abraded. On examination with a lens 

 each specimen exhibits on its flaked surfaces, striae of 

 varying depth and probably associated with the abrasion 

 or crushing. None of the flints is fissured by cracks, and 

 the flaking has been caused, almost exclusively, by blows, 



( 2 -) Henry Dewey, Geological Museum, Jermyn St., S.W. 



(3-) Charles W. Andrews, F.R.S.,, Geological Department, 

 S. Kensington Museum. 



< 4 -) J. Reid Moir, F.R. Anth. Inst., President of the Prehistoric 

 Society of Eaat Anglia. He discussed the Striation of Flint Surfaces 

 in " Man," Vol. XIV., No. 90, 1914. 



