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'brickeartlis containing Neolithic flint implements, but nothing 

 resembling a flint implement was found. It yielded a fair number 

 ■of mollusca at one spot near the eastern end of the section, a small 

 fragment of hand-made pottery, perhaps of Bronze age, a single 

 tooth of a vole, and a few indeterminable fragments of bone. On 

 the eastern side the top of this bed was about 11 feet frbm the 

 ■sti'eet level, and it occurred almost immediately below the made 

 earth c, but towards the west its upper part had been eroded away, 

 and it was only touched at a few phxces at a depth of 16 to 18 feet. 



Immediately succeeding this was a dark-coloured carbonaceous 

 silt, b, containing abundant vegetable remains and mollusca. In 

 •places there were lenticular masses largely made up of shells. 

 There were very few stones or bones, and no oysters were seen. 

 Several fragments of Roman tile were found. Beetle remains 

 also occurred, as well as numerous ostracods. 



The succeeding bed, c, was made earth of the well-known London 

 •type, containing bones, shells of oyster, mussel, whelk, and Helix 

 aspersa ; fragments of pottery and objects of metal, perhaps belonging 

 to the Stuart period, but certainly not older than Tudor. 



The western end of the excavation was perhaps the most interesting. 

 Here was the fiUed-up course of an old stream that ran across the 

 area from south to north. The banks could not clearly be made out, 

 but two rows of well-preserved modern piles 9 to 10 feet apart, 

 with cross-beams and planks nailed on to them, pi'obably marked 

 its artificial banks at some not very distant period. The section 

 of the filled-up bed was : — 



3. Modern brick rubbish. 



2. Partly stratified river mud, d, coutaiuing bricks, pieces of rooting slate, lumps 



of chalk, oyster and mussel shells, bones, and a few non-marine mollusca. 

 1. Carbonaceous silt, b, identical with that present elsewhere in the section. 



The junction of the river mud with the bed below was much 

 disturbed, probably by the grounding of boats. In the carbonaceous 

 silt were a large number of ancient piles made of more or less 

 crooked, small stems, or boughs of trees. They were in an advanced 

 stage of decay ; the wood being quite spongy and soft, in this respect 

 -contrasting markedly with the modern piles described above. , 



We would here take the opportunity of thanking Mr. Clement 

 Keid, F.R.S., for kindly identifying the plant remains, Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse for naming the insects, and Mr. B. B. Woodward for 

 ^assistance with the mollusca. 



List of Fossils from the Maesh Clay (Bed a). 



VEETEBRATA. 



Microtus glareolus (Slireb.), (Bank Vole). 

 MOLLUSCA. 

 Agriolimax agrestis (Linn.). Hygromia Msjncla (Linn.). 



Vitrea cellaria (Miill.). Helicigona arbustorum (Linn.). 



,, crystallina (Miill.). Helix aspersa, Linn. 



jLrion ater (Linn.). ,, nemoralis, Linn. 



,, hortensis, Fer. Cochlicojja lubrica (Miill.). 



Fyramidula rotundata (Miill.). Pupa muscorum (Linn.). 



