502 F. Raw—A Mammoth Molar from North. Woodchester. 
types formed by the metamorphism of rudaceous sedimentary rocks. 
The above suggested use of the terms psephitic, psammitic, and 
pelitic, has been adopted in many recent memoirs of the Geological 
Survey of the United Kingdom, especially those dealing with the 
gneisses and schists of the northern, north-western, and Grampian 
Highlands. 
On a Mammoth Molar from North Woodchester, near 
Stroud. 
By Frank Raw, B.Sc., F.G.S. 
(PLATE X.) 
HE tooth, of which a photograph (half-size) is reproduced, was 
found during Kaster, 1916, by the late Mr. W. Harrison, of 
Selly Oak, Birmingham, who kindly lent it to the writer. Though 
similar finds are fairly common, this tooth by its form is of rather 
special interest, and so the writer thinks merits description. 
According to the note written down at the time it was received 
from Mr. Harrison, it was found “at North Woodchester, at the 
base of the hill that rises to Selsley Hill”. This village is about 
1? miles 8.8.W. of Stroud, Gloucestershire, on the west side of the 
valley that runs here behind the edge of the Cotteswolds, of which 
Selsley Hill forms a part. North Woodchester lies along the road 
that runs west from the bottom of this valley (perhaps 150 feet O.D.), 
and rises to Selsley Hill (689 feet). The range in height of the 
village is from 200 feet O.D. to 300 feet O.D., and from the 
description of the site by Mrs. Harrison the writer judges the 
altitude of the find to be about 300 feet O.D. 
The tooth was found in a gravel pit, the gravel consisting largely 
of Oolitic and Liassic debris. Terebratula globata, fragments of 
Belemnites, and Ammonites serpentinus were recognized by the 
writer among the material collected from it by Mr. Harrison. As 
North Woodchester, according to the Geological Map, lies on Upper 
Lias, it may be concluded that the deposit of gravel lies on this 
formation, whence was derived Ammonites serpentinus and probably 
the Belemmites. Selsley Hill is of Inferior Oolite, which also forms 
the high ground to the east and covers a large area to the north. 
Mammoth remains seem fairly common in these gravels near 
Stroud. W. C. Lucey in 1869! records the occurrence of remains of 
the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, and bison (Bos primi- 
genius) In Gannicox Pit, Stroud, as well as land and freshwater 
snails from lenticles of clay interstratified with the gravel. Mr. Edwin 
Witchell,? who had discovered these fossil shells, describes the gravels 
and their fossil contents, mentioning “fine tusks of the mammoth 
1 W. C. Lucey, “ The gravels of the Severn, Avon, and Evenlode, and their 
extension over the Cotteswold Hills’’: Proc. Coties. Nat. F&.C., vol. v, 1869. 
2 E. Witchell, The Geology of Stroud. Also Stroud Nat. Hist. and Phal. 
Soc., 1876-8. Proc. Cottes: Nat. F.C., vol. viii, 1883. 
