REV. R. A. BULLEN, B.A., ON EOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS. 203 
Approximate depths. 
ft. 
in. 
Dark sandy soil : ‘ ae Pes Se 
Grey and yellow sandy loam 4 6 
Iron sand, pebbles, and large rough flints and 
worked stones .. 0 
Grey loam and yellow sandy er avel and 
worked stones... “se el 
Stiff black soil and worked stones .. 1.0 
Orange, red, brown or grey loam, and few 
pebbles. we oo Se aes Se eo haga 0 
Below which depth the section was not continued. 
(See also Report of British Association for 1895, p. 349.) 
I visited this section with Mr. B. Harrison on December 
24th, 1894, and saw this old pre-glacial gravel, and below 
the 6-foot level took out a well-defined squarish “sleeker” 
and other rudely flaked flints. 
In writing of these pits and others opened by Mr. B. 
Harrison near the same spot Mr. A. Santer Kennard says: 
‘Tn all these pits, at a depth of 8 feet from the surface, a 
bed of gravel, varying from 6 to 12 inches in thickness, was 
found. The gravel was cemented by iron and was so hard 
that a pick was needed to break it up. The underlying 
sandy loam, which was pierced for a further depth of 19 feet, 
1S probably. of early Tertiary age.’ 
The position of these excavations near the face of the 
chalk escarpment, at a height of over 700 feet O.D., shows 
that they were anterior to ‘the Glacial Epoch. They are not 
gravels of that age, being gravels in a ferruginous cement, 
whereas the glacial gravel deposits lie at a far lower level, 
in the bottoms of the chalk valleys, below the 250 feet 
contour line, and sometimes attain a thickness of 30 feet. 
Bones of musk-ox, mammoth, horse, etc., as well as land 
shells, occur in the latter gravels.* 
The manner of the deposition of these plateau gravels has 
been ably stated by Sir Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S.,f and 
Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S.t 
As the latter wrote at a later date, in consultation with 
* See also Kennard, Wat. Science, January, 1898, p. 33. 
t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. xlvi, May, 1890, p. 179, sections 7 to 13, 
and elsewhere. 
t Nat. Science, October, 1894, p. 269, etc. 
