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23. Mr. E. T. Nicottz.—The Barrow of La Hougue Bie, Jersey. 
La Hougue Bie, in Jersey, is a round barrow, having diameter 180 feet and 40 feet 
high. In September 1924 the barrow was explored by the Société Jersiaise, and a 
passage dolmen (dolmen & galerie) discovered in a perfect state of preservation. In 
plan it is cruciform, and is oriented East and West. Its entire length is 67 feet, of 
which the gallery measures 32 feet. The main chamber has three side chambers, and 
varies in breadth from 10 to 12 feet. Its height is 7 feet. With the exception of 
about twenty cup-marks on one of the uprights, the stones do not bear any incisions. 
All the stones of the structure are of granite, sea-worn, and were brought from the 
shore, three miles distant. The barrow consists of stones and earth and considerable 
quantities of limpet shells. The contents of the barrow measure 18,000 tons. The 
floor was found to have been rifled. Some human bones and pottery were discovered. 
An examination of the tibias indicates that the stature of the race was short, and that 
the people were given to squatting. The pottery consists of vessels evidently used 
for ritual or votive purposes. The monument belongs to the transition period between 
the neolithic and bronze ages. A primitive chapel was constructed on the summit 
of the barrow (tenth to twelfth century) and still exists. There exists an interesting 
legend of a dragon devastating the island, and of a knight of Hambye, in Normandy, 
who crossed over to slay it, and was buried in the mound. The Hougue Bie dolmen 
is a fine example of the greatest development attained in Western Europe by neolithic 
people in the construction of megaliths. 
24, Mr. L. S. Patmer and Mr.. A. C. Hinton. — Some Pleistocene 
Gravels at Clevedon, Somerset. 
Banked up on the eastern side of the high ridge of hills running north from Clevedon - 
along the coast, is a deposit resembling a talus head or drift consisting of a stratum of 
zolian sand lying between two limestone breccias, the lower of which is, in some places, 
50 feet thick. This breccia had filled up a small cave in the cliff against which the 
deposit is banked and the bones removed from the cave in 1906 by Prof. 8. H. Reynolds 
are mentioned in the Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society (Vol. I, 1907). 
The zolian deposit, which has yielded no mammal remains, has been described by 
Dr. E. Greenly in the Geological Magazine (Vol. LIX, 1922). The present note concerns 
the fauna of the limestone breccia which, during recent quarrying, has been exposed 
along the cliff face. Bones of horse, bear, wolf, and fox, together with numerous small 
mammals, have been dug from the lowest levels of the breccia, but become much less 
numerous in the upper strata. Associated bones indicate that in all probability 
the animals were contemporary with the formation of the deposit, and may have died 
in the shelter of the overhanging cliffs. The evidence for the presence of man is not 
conclusive, and consists of several pieces of chert of doubtful -‘ humanity.’ 
The consensus of geological and biological evidence points to the deposit as being 
contemporary with the newer deposits (Crayford and Erith) of the middle-terrace of 
the Thames and with the older 50’ Crombe Rocks of the south coast. From other 
evidence this would indicate that the deposit was formed about late Mousterian or 
Aurignacian times. 
25. Miss D. A. EK. Garrop.—The Upper Paleolithic Age in Britain. 
The excavations of Buckland at Paviland in 1823 and of M’Enery at Kent’s Hole 
in 1825 mark the discovery of the Upper Paleolithic in this country. Since that date 
a fair number of sites have been studied, and the following results seem to be 
established. 
The Middle and Upper Aurignacian are present in England, but the typical 
Solutrean does not seem to have penetrated beyond East Anglia. Its place is taken 
by a developed Aurignacian of Font-Robert type. The Magdalenian also has a 
“ provincial’ aspect, a flint industry in which Upper Aurignacian survivals are very 
marked being associated with objects in bone and reindeer antler of Magdalenian type. 
The explanation of this divergence from Continental industries lies in the geographical 
position of this country. England, as the northern outpost of Upper Palzolithic 
Europe, would be to some extent cut off from her neighbours to the south during the 
very severe cold of Magdalenian times. 
