A. R. Horwood—Post-Pleistocene of Central England. 545 
R. Garner, author of the Natural History of Staffordshire, identified 
in bed 5 the following shells :— 
Helix pulchella. Vertigo sp. 
HH. rotundata. Succinea oblonga. 
HH. fuiva. Planorbis sp. 
Buliminus obscurus. Limnea peregra. 
B. sp. L. truncatula. 
Vertigo substriata. 
In addition to these a diatom, Mragillaria, was detected, and the 
wing of an insect, the elytron of a beetle, etc., but not in the peat 
with the shells. In a field south of this section another was seen— 
1. Brown clay. 5 : : : 6 inches to 2 feet. 
2. Dark earthy sand : : : : 1 foot. 
3. Coarse ochreous gravel 6 1 to 2 feet. 
4. Current-bedded sand with veins of clay . 4 to 6 feet. 
6ft. 6in. to 11 feet. 
In bed 4 roots of aquatic plants, probably Jris, were found, passing 
up through the gravel above, becoming ochreous in colour. The claw 
of acray-fish, Astacus fluviatilis, was found in the gravel. At Stretton, 
on the opposite or north side of the river, the section is— 
ft. in, 
1. Strong red clay and gravel : : 5 : 10 0 
2. Yellow gravel and sandy clay . 5 ; : 4) © 
3. Yellow sand and gravel. il © 
4. Blue clay and gravel passing into strong clay, 
the upper surface containing a band of from 
2 to 3 inches of black peaty matter 2 0 
5. Coarse yellow gravel @ 9 
6. White and yellow sand and clayey gravel, with 
subangular flints 3 0 
7. Strong red marly clay and ‘gravel 2 0 
8. Tenacious dark-blue clay . Zine 
9. Deep yellow ochreous sand 0 3 
10. Strong white clayey gravel, bottom not seen 4 0 
11. Blue and brown clays => = 
30 3 
In No. 4 fragments of wood and plants have been found and 
aquatic plants in No. 8. In No. 4 very large blue and yellow flints 
derived from the Drift occur. 
In the river-gravels at Andersley, at 3-5 feet deep, roots and 
branches of trees occur, and at a lower level also, in addition, hazel- 
nuts, aquatic shells, and bones of mammalia. Professor Boyd 
Dawkins identified the latter as bones, jaws, and teeth of Sus scrofa, 
Bos longifrons, and domestic varieties, Hguus, and bones of wolf or 
dog, while similar remains have been found at Burton itself, near 
Whitehead’s Brewery, Mosley Street old river-course, sewer excavations 
at Anderstaff Lane, and at Stretton. At the Hay, below 3 ft. 6 in. of 
sand and gravel, in stiff blue and yellow clay, roots and branches of 
trees and other plants were found, and below the latter peat 
(lft. 9in.). At Mosley Street, below 5 feet of clay, 8 feet of 
peat was met with. 
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