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•saccharoldal, ami stained. Many with large and small tubular holes, 

 some of which are split open and form furrows on the surfaces, often 

 due to old natural splitting. 



1889. Hartest Green, Suffolk. A large brownish Sarsen (5 ft. 8 ins. 

 X 5 ft. 2 ins. X 3 ft. 6 ins.), much rounded (almost like a boulder), 

 fine-grained and whitish inside, where wounded bj' blows of stones. 

 Much pitted naturally on the outside. Flattened at the top, and 

 worn smooth by boys' play. It was taken years ago out of a field 

 now occupied by Mr. Griggs, and recpiired eight horses to drag it. 

 It is stated in a letter from a resident there that " it measures 12 feet 

 round (probably touching the ground for 6 feet of its length), and 

 about 4 feet across, weighing 5 of 6 tons." It is not alluded to 

 as a boulder by the Committee on Boulders, etc. (British Association). 



1889. At Newton Green there is a large Sarsen stone (4| X 

 •3x2 feet) by the side of the pond next to the " Saracen's Head " 

 Inn, which shows on one side a ' bowelly ' surface, and the other 

 «ides split flat. 



1889. One stone (3 feet long) with bowelly surface, and with 

 tubules, is at Frost Farm, Stoke, near Nayland. Near Nayland, at 

 the corner of cross-road from Bures to Colchester, there is a Sarsen 

 7ft. Gin. long, roughly oval in outline. By the side of the high 

 road near the Popsey bridge, a little east of tlie Anchor bi'idge. Nay- 

 land, a Sarsen standing on the bank (3 X 1^ feet) shows a natural 

 surface with a large hole, also a boldly mammillated surface 

 (bowelly). Its upper end and sides are split flat; lower end buried. 



1889. In a letter dated Ipswich, September 12th, 1889, the late 

 Dr. J. E.Taylor obligingly informed me, with regard to some Sarsen 

 stones found at Ipswich, that " the Reading stone-bed specimen [not 

 a Sarsen] is highly calcareous, but I have found no traces of 

 Foraminit'era in it. The mammillated stone is purely siliceous. . . 

 .. . The siliceous stones are abundant hereabouts ; the others not 

 so. I got them both [the stones referred to] during the excavation 

 of the deep sewers in one of tlie streets of this town." 



(3) Ussex.—lSdQ. T. V. Holmes : Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xiv, 

 p. 190. A large Sarsen is here mentioned that has been removed 

 from the Glacial Gravel at Writtle Wick, near Chelmsford. A note 

 on the possible origin of the word Sarsen is also given. 



1896. A. E. Salter: Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xiv, p. 394. In the 

 Epping Forest gravel A. E. Salter noticed " Sandstones and Sarsens, 

 both large, various, and plentiful. At Epping Forest I saw three, 

 measuring 9 in. by 5 in., 12 in. by 6 in., and 20 in, by 5 in. 

 respectively." In the high - level Glacial Gravel at Witherthorn, 

 four miles east of Ongar, "large Sarsens (2 ft. by 1^ ft.) " (p. 395), 

 At Woodton, in the Yare Valley, "a block of Hertfordshire Pudding- 

 •stone was found " (p. 399), 



(4) Hertfordshire. — 18d7 and 1899. The Eev. Alex. Irving 

 describes both Sarsens and Herts Pmldingstones as common in the 

 ^tort Valley (Herts and Essex). He refers both to the Bagshot 

 Series, the latter particularly to the Pebhle-beds ; and he states that 

 both rocks are agglutinated by the same kind of siliceous cement 



