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 Guildford, in a place 

 called Pease Marsh, a wedge-shaped flint implement, resem-* 

 bling one brought from St. Acheul by Mr. Prestwich, and 

 compared by some antiquaries to a sling-stone, was obtained 

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

 in which the teeth and tusks of elej^hants had been found. 

 The Wey flows through the gorge of the North Downs at 

 Guildford 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.-j- 



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 imbedded. The flint implement was dee2)ly 



* Evans, Archeeologia, 18G0. 



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



