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pheric agencies, and the removal of the atoms in solution with the 

 carbonated water through the cracks and fissures of the underlying 

 rock. The unworn condition of the flints shows that they have 

 not been transported from any distance ; in fact, that they are in 

 situ, deprived of the chalk with which they were originally 

 associated. There is a remarkable bed of flint without chalk 

 capping the hill on the east side of Bulbarrow, and another of brick- 

 earth a mile south of Delcombe on the boundary of Hougliton 

 Parish ; it maintained a brick-kiln for some years until the clay fit 

 for brick-making was exhausted. 



Mr. Warne describes the Bagber Kiln "as a rectangular building 

 44ft. by 25ft. in which was a large amount of fragmentary ware, 

 and with only a few other objects of any interest or value." I 

 uncovered three chambers excavated out of the solid chalk and 

 without any sign of masonry ; the first was circular, 6ft. in 

 diameter, cased with a coating of clay nine inches thick, and had 

 been subject to intense heat. With the exception of the upper 

 part of a quern and the two halves of a septaria from the Oxford 

 Clay, for use unknown, it was empty. In the centre of the second 

 chamber, which was also circular, and communicated with 

 the first, was an undetached solid block of chalk three feet long, 

 two feet broad, and three feet high, supporting a flat stone of 

 Greensand. The third chamber, which was the largest, stood at a 

 lower level by eight inches than the two others. The walls were 

 rough, showing the marks of the workmen's tools. Among the relics 

 was the section of a circular piece of Kimmeridge shale, similar 

 to one found by Mr. Warne in 1841, but less perfect, and was 

 in all probability a portion of a revolving wheel, to which the 

 potter's table was attached. There were several triangular, thin, 

 and finely-grained concretionary stones from the Bagshot series, 

 probably made use of to knead the clay, from the Reading and 

 Woolwich Beds some little distance off. Only one disc of Kim- 

 meridge coal-money was found, which was of the usual type found 

 in this part of the county namely, three shallow holes on the 

 upper surface and one on the other. The only coin was one of 



