544 A. R. Horwood—Post- Pleistocene of Central England. 
distinctly alluvial. The site was about 100 feet at most from the 
River Soar. At a depth of 11 feet and below Boulder-clay resting on 
Red Marl an antler of Rangifer tarandus was found close to the 
same spot. In the river gravels and alluvium at various points in the 
Soar Valley the following mammalia have been found, at the Abbey 
Meadow, Belgrave, Humberstone, Thurmaston, Aylestone, Barrow-on- 
Soar, Loughborough, Kegworth, Syston, Thurnby, Melton Mowbray, 
and elsewhere :— 
Bison bonasus, var. priscus. Elephas primigenius. 
Bos taurus, var. primigenius. Rangifer tarandus. 
Cervus elaphus. Rhinoceros leptorhinus. 
Hlephas antiquus. 
Whilst the foregoing may be Glacial, the following are of more 
recent date :— 
Bos taurus, var. longifrons. Cervus elaphus. 
Capra or Ovis sp. Equus caballus. 
Capreolus caprea. Sus scrofa. 
Cervus dama. 
As to molluscan remains in Glacial beds themselves Messrs. 
G. W. Lamplugh and C. Fox-Strangways are said to have found 
Tellina bulthica at Beasley’s Sandpit, Aylestone, in the Quartzose 
Sand, but M. Browne’ threw discredit on the discovery. We must 
say that there is no reason to doubt their occurrence, and we have 
found shell fragments there and elsewhere, though too fragmentary— 
as most Glacial contemporaneous fossils are—to determine. 
Lower Trent VALLEY. 
Passing to the north-west corner of Leicestershire and the Trent 
Valley, we find evidence of a similar flora and fauna in the Burton-on- 
Trent district. Here at Stapenhill alluvial deposits occur 17 feet 
above the Trent, and Mr. W. Molyneux, F.G.8.,*? gave the following 
section :— 
ft. in 
1. Red clay . : 4 0 
2. Stiff yellow clay . 0 6 
3. Black and yellow clay, gradually passing into ; 
a strong unctuous clay . pre) 
4, Peat containing shells and thickly charged with 
small erystals of sulphate of lime . 5 Wasi 
5. Strong yellowish-brown clay, the BDRe? pant 
thickly charged with shells : 4 0 
6. Band of coarse gravel : 0 3 
7. Hard consolidated, stratified ‘sand, with few 
pebbles 2 0 
8. Loose current-bedded white and yellow” sand, 
intersected by thin bands of peat, clay, and 
pebbles, and frequently containing lumps of 
coal and black shale . 10 0 
9. Coarse white and yellow clayey g gravel containing 
bones of animals . . : : 
1 Trans. Leic. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 1901, p. 30. 
2 Burton-on-Trent, its History, its Waters, and its Breweries, 1869, p. 182. 
