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Layers 4 to 8 (x' in 'Fig. 1 ) form the second of the two true kitchen 

 middens mentioned by Mr. Warren. How far it extends northward 

 could not be determined, since it passed behind the grass- covered talus 

 slope. It appears to occupy a slight depression in the surface of the 

 head. The discovery of a regular hearth is of interest, while the state 

 of preservation of the whole is remarkable, the fragments of charcoal 

 being as fresh as if newly burned. Besides Mi/tilus, shells of 

 Glycimeris [= Fectunculus^, Patella^ and Purpura were found in it 

 with a single burnt Helix nemoralis and three or four Selicella harlara. 

 The latter must have been accidentally introduced among the embers, 

 for they could not have served as articles of diet. 



The two Mytilus layers of the kitchen midden speedily unite 

 southwards, and at the point E blend with the upper layer (No. 2 of 

 the section). 



As Mr. Warren notes, the dune sands appear in places here to pass down 

 into the 'head,' but this is probably a false rather than a true junction. 



The return section from E to Gr into the next miniature cove to the 

 north is practically the same as at the point E. 



At G there is an easy way down to the beach, and at the foot 

 of the descent the indurated sands are well seen, not only in the cliff, 

 capped by the ' head,' but also in masses on the foreshore. These 

 last are apparently the subject of Mr. Reid's plate v in his Survey 

 Memoir on the Newquay district. They must, however, have suffered 

 considerable further denudation since he photographed them, for he 

 could not have failed to see and record the interesting miniature 

 natural arch shown in the accompanying view most kindly taken for 

 nie by the E,ev. A. E. Oldheld (Plate III). The illustration shows the 

 old marine platform of killas with its boulder-strewn surface, and the 

 way in which the old marine sands, when there is no coarse pebble 

 bed at the base, fit in between and around the boulders and are firmly 

 cemented to them, the layers preserving their horizoutality everywhere 

 as only water-deposited strata can do. Some of the curious vertical 

 pipes in the indurated sands, partly cut through, are also conspicuous 

 in the mass in front of the cliff. 



Roimd the rest of the cove the ' head ' comes nearly to the top of 

 the cliff, and no dune deposits worth recording are seen till the 

 northern point K is reached. Here the killas rises at the point to 

 2 ft. 6 in. from the surface, and is much broken and crushed at 

 the top (see Fig. 1). Erom the point eastwards its surface is slightly 

 depressed, and a little further on the 'head,' almost wanting at the 

 very point, comes on and rises to about two feet from the surface. 



The hill-wash-dune that caps the point gives at its thickest the 

 following section : — ft. in. 



1. Top soil with laud shells, resting on a seam of broken slates .. 



2. Sand -with a seam of pebbles at the base .. . ... 



3. Sand ... ... 



4. Sand with land shells 



5. Sand .. ... ... ... ... 



6. Layer of closely packed Mytilus shells with fragments of slate 



7. Sand 



8. Masses of charred Mytilus shells, burnt earth, charcoal, and 



burnt stones (.r in Fig. 1) ... ... ... ... ... 6 



9. Traces of ' head,' resting on killas. 



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