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referred were not the same as those which I had seen, I determined 

 to visit these also. I had again the invaluable advantage of 

 Mr Skertchly himself being my guide. The first place where I 

 saw the loam was at the brickpit at Mildenhall. The section was 

 very badly exposed ; but the brickearth could just be seen under- 

 lying a clay containing scratched pebbles of chalk, which, if not 

 the boulder clay w situ, was evidently immediately derived from 

 it. I was informed that many implements had been found here, 

 and Mr Fenton of Mildenhall has from this place a fragment of a 

 large bone. 



About a mile to the East of this place, at a spot called High 

 Lodge hill, I was shown a good sized pit of undoubted boulder 

 clay, with large blocks of flint and boulders of other rocks. 

 Close below it were several old excavations where the loamy 

 brickearth had been dug. It was covered with three or four feet 

 of sandy flint gravel, well stratified, and Mr Skertchly informed 

 me that many flakes and some implements had been found here 

 in the loam. It was obvious that, had the section been fresh and 

 clear, the now tumbled boulder clay which formed one side of the 

 excavation would have been seen actually overlying the gravel 

 which covered the loamy brickearth. I was now convinced of the 

 correctness of the views of Mr Skertchly, and that the sequence 

 at this place was (1) boulder clay, (2) sandy gravel, (3) implement 

 bearing loam. Mr Skertchly informed me that the loam here rests 

 upon another boulder clay, and that upon chalk. His section, as 

 given at the British Association, was : 



Chalky boulder clay, 6 ft. 



Gravel, 4 ,, 



Loamy clay, 4 ,, 



Boulder clay, 6 ,, 



Chalk. 



But the boulder clay which I saw in the adjoining pit could not 

 have been less than fifteen feet thick. 



The sandy gravel at this spot resembles in all respects 

 gravels which I have seen in Essex, forming a part of the Middle 

 drift of Mr Searles V. Wood, junr. 



The next section to which I was taken was at a place called 

 West Stow (on the map it is about a furlong to the East of the 

 Southern end of the plantation called Icklingham Belt). Here 

 was an old pit where plenty of boulder clay was seen and a patch 

 of loam in the middle of it. The relation of the two was not 

 very obvious on account of the tumbled condition of the section, 

 but Mr Skertchly informed me that the boulder clay wrapped 

 round the loam, and it appeared to me as if the loam was engaged 

 in it. Nevertheless the stratification of the patch of loam that 



