CHAP. IX. FLINT IMPLEMENTS IN MIDDLESEX AND SURREY. 161 



Collectanea,' vol. i. p. 73, it is stated to have been found in the 

 presence of Mr. Conyers, with the skeleton of an elephant.* 

 So many bones of the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus 

 have been found in the gravel on which London stands, that 

 there is no reason to doubt the statement as handed down to 

 us. Fossil remains of all these three genera have been dug 

 up on the site of Waterloo Place, St. James's Square, Charing 

 Cross, the London Docks, Limehouse, Bethnal Green, and 

 other places within the memory of persons now living. 

 In the gravel and sand of Shacklewell, in the northern 

 suburbs of London, I have myself collected specimens of 

 the Cyrena fluminalis in great numbers, see fig. 17 c, p. 124, 

 with the bones of deer and other mammalia. 



In the alluvium also of the Wey, near Gruildford, in a 

 place called Pease Marsh, a wedge-shaped flint implement, 

 resembling one brought from St. Acheul, by Mr. Prestwich, 

 and compared by some antiquaries to a sling-stone, was ob 

 tained in 1836 by Mr. Whitburn, four feet deep in sand and 

 gravel, in which the teeth and tusks of elephants had been 

 found. The Wey flows through the gorge of the North 

 Downs at Gruildford to join the Thames. Mr. Austen has 

 shown that this drift is so ancient that one part of it had been 

 disturbed and tilted before another part was thrown down.f 



Among other places where flint tools of the antique type 

 have been met with in the course of the last three years, I 

 may mention one of an oval form found by Mr. Evans in 

 the valley of the Darent, and another which the same observer 

 found lying on the shore at Swalecliff, near Whitstable, in 

 Kent, where Mr. Prestwich had previously described a fresh 

 water deposit, resting on the London clay, and consisting 

 chiefly of gravel, in which an elephant's tooth and the bones 

 of a bear were embedded. The, flint implement was deeply 



* Evans, Archseologia, 1860. 



f Quarterly Geological Journal, 1851, vol. vii. p. 278. 



M 



