130 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1912. 
for a grant from the British Association to enable me to follow up 
this secon line of inquiry and to endeavour to ascertain, by means 
of excavations and borings, what beds really did occur along the flank 
of the hill. 
As soon as [ obtained permission I commenced work so as to ayail 
myself of the longer days and better weather. I first opened four 
pits on the east side from about 12 feet from the summit to about 
130 feet down the flank of the hill. The total aggregate thickness of 
strata passed through in these trial holes was 85 feet 3 inches. I 
then sunk and bored to a depth of 34 feet on the opposite or west 
side of the hill, starting at 10 feet from the summit. 
The details of the section were as follows :— 
Priv I. (the highest on the cast side of the hill). 
(a) Surface soil. Ht. in. 
(6) Mixed clay and gravel with sharp angular flints . : : 3.0 
(c) Blocks of hard limestone with Melanopsis and Paludina . : 2 0 
(d) Rubbly limestone. This I at once recognised as the same as 
the bed which occurs at the base of the limestone on 
Headon Hill, where it is rich in mammalian remains. I 
found here a tooth of Paleotherium on my last visit, and 
we now obtained a good tooth of Dictulumus leporinus 
(Owen) . ; : - : ; 2 : as ‘ : a) 
(e) Caking sand : : 7 -_ : * : : . 3 6 
(f) Dark brown sand ‘ ; . 14 6 
(g) Light grey sand with a very y large flint at the base. This is 
on the same horizon as the bed in which Mr. Huddleston 
found the curiously coated flints which he thought were 
in situ and passed under the limestone ; . : : 1 3 
Pir IL. 
(a) Surface soil. Ft. in, 
(b) Clay, sand, and gravel with fragments of weathered limestone 
at the bottom ; h ; P : , F 3 . 16 0 
Pir Il. 
(a) Surface soil. ¥ 
(6) Dirty gravel 
(c) Caking sand : 
(d) Large and small flints 
(ec) Brown, stiff, sandy clay 
(f) Loose flint gravel 
(g) Black streaky clayey sand “with flint- t-chips, concretions, and 
much manganese 
(h) Hard irony crust : 
(t) Clayey sand with perished Alints one e large white flint at the 
bottom of the hole 
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Pir IV. Ft. in. 
(a) Vegetable mould . ‘ 09 
(b) Clay, sand, and gravel with very large flints up to lewt. This 
much resembles the Middle Headon Venus Bed . ; : 9 0 
(c) Drab sandy clay like that in brickyard; not bottomed . -. 16..0 
