286 Mi' Fisher, On implement-hearing loams in Suffolk. [Nov. 10, 



The first section to which Mr Skertchly introduced us (I am 

 now speaking of our visit in 1876) was a brick pit at Elveden Gap. 

 Here we saw a yellowish brown sandy brick earth beneath three 

 or four feet of boulder clay. These beds appeared to have been 

 preserved by having sunk into a large pot hole in the chalk before 

 the general spread of them was denuded off. All around was a 

 flat chalk surface, and these beds were quite surrounded by it. 

 No implements had been obtained here. 



The next section to which we were conducted was close to the 

 Thetford water- works. Here we saw horizontally stratified brick- 

 earth, similar to that at Elveden Gap, resting upon boulder clay. 

 No implements were cited either from this locality. Assuming 

 that the brickearths at these localities were originally parts of the 

 same bed, the point made out w^as that this brickearth is inter- 

 calated between two boulder clays. Close by this pit, on rather 

 higher ground, was the well of the water-works then in progress. 

 Mr Skertchly informed us that the well passed from the brick- 

 earth directly into the chalk, the boulder clay being absent. 



The brickearth thrown out of the Avell .was of a dark blue 

 colour, very similar in appearance to the laminated glacial clay in 

 the cliff at Cromer. 



The third section to which we were introduced was in a brick- 

 pit at a place called Botany Bay (being considered I suppose from 

 its isolation a place of banishment). This is about a furlong to 

 the west of the celebrated neolithic flint mines at Grime's Graves. 

 Here we saw brickearth more sandy than at either of the other 

 two places, and with the bedding much disturbed. In a lenticular 

 thin patch of coarse carbonaceous gravel, Mr Skertchly and Mr 

 James Geikie had found a worked flint of the scraper type, and 

 two others were subsequently found in this pit. Here then we 

 had implements in brickearth. But there was no evidence in 

 this brickpit as to the position of the brickearth with regard to 

 the boulder clay, and to my mind the brickearth differed in 

 character from what we had seen at the former localities, both by 

 being more sandy and disturbed in its bedding. 



Mr Skertchly, however, conducted us to an old pit adjoining, 

 where, in his opinion, he could perceive boulder clay overlapping 

 a remnant of this brickearth. To my mind, however, the evi- 

 dence was not satisfactory. Thus I came away with the conclusion 

 that there was a brickearth in this neighbourhood, intercalated 

 between boulder clays, and that implements had been found in 

 brickearth, but there was no evidence to satisfy me that these 

 brickearths were the same. 



When the British Association met during last summer, Mr 

 Skertchly brought his discoveries before the Anthropological de- 

 partment, and observing that the localities to which he principally 



