much of the southern part of the Plymouth quadrangle. If the gravels 
between Great Herring Pond .and Cape Cod Bay are included as part of 
the broad area of outwash materials that were deposited at approxi- 
mately the same time as the construction of the Ellisville moraine, 
it is clear that the Wareham pitted plain once extended southeastward 
beyond the steep wave-cut cliffs at the shoreline. 
Peaked ‘Cliff,a high point.on.-the shoreline of Cape Cod Bay half 
a mile north .of Sagamore Highlands, is the apex of a more or less 
conical mass of outwash gravel that underlies the area east of Great 
Herring Pond Slopes of the surface away from this apex, altnough 
they ene Seerrasced by many kettles,suggest that the materials were 
spread generally southwestward froma _ source (ice border) that lay 
somewhere east or northeast of Peaked Cliff. 
The outer.margin ofthis fan of-glacio-fluvial material is ir- 
reculear. It lies against the Sandwich moraine on the southwest and 
against the Wareham pitted plain on the west and northwest. Although 
in general the altitudes of this cone are below those of the pitted 
plain where the two come in contact,other features indicate that the 
outwash in both these areas was deposited from ice that lay to the 
northeast during approximately the same interval of time. Further- 
more, as an outwash plain is ordinarily a compound unit built up by 
the overlapping of several cones of outwash, it seems logical uO naan 
clade this eastern cone in the Wareham pitted plain. 
The dimensions of this pitted plain are comparable to those of 
the Lashpee pitted plain; but its surface is much more irregular and 
pitted. Apparentiy,many large bodies of stagnant ice lay in a broad 
lowland area, the southern end of which is now occupied by Buzzards 
Ray,and ‘remained there until buried beneath a great apron of outwash’ 
that spread southwestward from the Cape Cod Bay lobe. South of Long 
Pond Vildase,as well as west of the south end of Great Herring Pond, 
and also in the area between Littie Sandy Fond and Weeks Pond in -the 
Sagamore quadrangle, there are remnants of a fairly smooth surface 
that slopes southward ard southwestward. More extensive remnants 
scored by long furrows occur through the central part of the Wareham 
quadrangle. These patches of higher ground suggest that the pitted 
plain once had a cqntinuous, smooth surface that has been almost de~ 
stroved because of the melting away of buried ice paebiee 
Despite the .moraine-like appearance of its (pitted surface in 
the Sagamore quadrangle, the southwestward slope of the ae alist alsa 
dicated by a gradual change inthe heights of smoother tracts between 
kettles which range in altitude from more than 150 feet near Long 
Pond Village and more than 200 feet on Mountain Hill near Ellisville 
to sealevel at Big Buttermilk Bay. -- - - a 
The Wareham pitted plain is.not shaped ike a tan with a single 
apex and a convex outer margin. .Its sur face slopes seem to converze 
toward several high areas along the southwest side of the Ellisville 
moraine, and suggest that outwash was fed from several major sources 
along the ice. front. To locate the exact Eee of these sources 
is difficult, however, because so many large kettles have develore 
in the zone bordering the moraine. A gradual but irregular change 
outhwestward ,in the . size of constituents in the Eravel,fronm coarse 
