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the Thames, the Bexley pits at Stankey Wood (Fig. 1) and Cavey 

 Spring (Fig. 2) being between three and four miles frona the river, 



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FiG. 1. — Ground-plan of Pit at Stankey "Wood (west of fence), visited by the Sidcup 

 Literary and Scientific Society, June 6th, 1885. Scale 40 feet to an inch. 



Greatest length from A to B, about 52 ft. 6 in. 



„ ,, „ C to D, „ 36 ft. 6 in. 



„ ,, EtoF, „ 36 ft. 6 in. 



Height 18 ft. in. 



and the Hangman's Wood pits, at Grays, about a mile and a half 

 (Fig. 3), But at Bexley the river Darent, a little eastward of the 

 deneholes, would have allowed piratical craft to come a mile or two 

 nearer these groups than the course of the Thames, apart from its 



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Fig. 2. — Denehole at Cavey Spring, Bexley. Scale 40 feet to an inch. 



x-x, points at which the next pillars were being made. 

 Length of chamber from W.S.W. to E.N.E. ... 42ft. 6iil. 



Height lift. 6iu. 



Depth to bottom of chamber, from surface ... 61 ft. 6 in. 

 Thickness of chalk roof 3ft. 6in. 



