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IMBEDDING OF THE REMAINS OF MAN AND [Ch. XLVII. 



The occasional occurrence of unrolled clialk-flints in the 

 gravel in places where they must have travelled twelve miles 

 from their nearest sonrce, also implies the aid of ice-action. 

 The transverse valleys now intersecting the region near the 

 coast where the flint tools are fonnd^ near Gosport^ mnst 

 have been cut through the Tertiary strata^ after the over- 

 lying gravel had been superimposed, for this lixst forms a flat 

 table-land between the valleys. 



On the whole we may infer that not only the valleys of 



streams near Gosport, but those of the Test 



stream 



the smaller streams 

 (or Southampton river) and 

 Lymington, and those of the rivers Avon and Stour, which 

 reach the Solent at Christchurch, as well as the Bourne- 

 mouth valley, have all been excavated since Palseolithic man 

 inhabited this region ; for not only at various points east of 

 the Southampton estuary, but west of it also on both sides 



Bournemouth 



met 



The 



Ofravel from 



is about 100 feet above the level of the sea ; as I ascertained 

 after examining the spot in 1867."^ 



The gravel consists in great part of pebbles derived from 

 Tertiary strata ; and if it was originally spread out by rivers, 



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must 



existing 



such an extent that it is not easy to trace any connection 

 between the old watercourses and those of the 



valleys. 



Lastly, I learn from Mr. Evans that Mr. Tliomas Codrington 

 lias just discovered (Feb. 8, 1868), an oval flint implement in 

 gravel at the top of the Toreland cliff on the most eastern 

 point of the Isle of Wight five miles south-east of Eyde. It 

 is of the true Paleolithic type, and the gravel in which it is 

 imbedded at the height of about 80 feet above the level of 

 the sea, mav, as Mr. Evans suggests, have once extended to 

 the cliffs near Gosport ; in which case we should have to infer 



obtained t'n'O other 



* Mr. Alfred Stevens first dug out a soon afterwards 



hatchet (April, 1866) from this gravel similar implements from gravel west 



at the top of the sea-cliff east of the of the Bournemouth valley. 

 Bournemouth opening. Dr. Blackmore 



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