CHAP.VI.] RIVER-DRTFT MAN NEAR SALISBURY. 



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River-drift Man in the Neighbourhood of Salisbury. 



The fluviatile gravels near Salisbury 1 have furnished 

 implements of the same kind as those of the valley of 

 the Thames in several places, among which those at 

 Bemerton and Fisherton are the most important. At 



RAILWAY 



FISHERTON 



FIG. 36. Late Pleistocene Strata at Fisherton. 



a = Gravel with implements. 



b = Brick-earths with implements and mammals. 



c = Alluvium. 



d- Gravel. 



Bemerton, about twenty implements have been obtained 

 in a bed of flint gravel, a, ranging as high as 100 feet above 

 the River Wily (Fig. 36), and some of these have lost 

 their sharpness of outline from having been rolled in the 

 river, when it flowed at a higher level than the stratum 

 in which they are imbedded, now forming the summit of 

 the hill. It contained no fossil remains. In the stratum, 

 however, on the slope of the valley at Fisherton, b, dipping 



i See Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, p. 549, and Quart. Geol. Journ 

 Lond. xx. 188. Stevens, Flint Chips, p. 47. The mammalia have been 

 determined by Dr. Blackmore and Mr. Alston. 



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