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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, [June 19, 



Road. The gravels consisted of the usual subangular flints mixed 

 with rounded quartz and quartzite pebbles, with occasional fragments 

 of pudding-stone. No traces of river or other shells were discovered 

 in this place. In the surface-soil were found some fragments of 

 Romano-British pottery, the relics of comparatively modern occupa- 

 tion. To the eastward of the railway-station, in the foundations of 

 East Acton ViUas, on the 60-feet line, the ground appeared to have 

 been disturbed. Some flakes and small scrapers were found in this 

 place, all of surface type, and of a dark colour. Two chipped imple- 

 ments found here in the gravel are worthy of notice as being of sur- 

 face type, although stained with the ferruginous colour of the gravel ; 

 one of these, of the celt-form, with an edge at the broad end, was 

 found at a depth of about 4 feet ; but whether it belonged to the 

 gravel-deposit, or had worked in from the surface, I was unable to 

 determine ; it is, however, completely gravel -stained. To the west- 

 ward of the station the ground rises, as seen by the contour-lines 

 marking the 70-, 80-, and 90-feet levels. 



In Alfred Road, Section B,the surface being 63 feetabove the datum, 

 a small oval-shaped implement was found at a depth of 7 feet, resting 

 on the actual surface of the London Clay, and beneath an undisturbed 

 seam of sand 6 inches thick. The surface of this implement is very 

 much rolled ; T saw it a few moments after it was taken out, and I 

 have preserved a piece of the London Clay taken from immediately 

 below the spot. 



In Section C (fig. 2), surface 75 feet, is seen the position of some 

 flakes and a flint, shaped like a rough scraper, found at a depth of 



Fig. 2. — Section C, in High-terrace Gravel at Hyde House, Shalce- 

 sjjear I^oad. Surface 75 feet. 



10 ft. 



a. Surface soil, 6 in. b. Disturbed soil, 2-3 ft. c. Gravel and sand, ferruginous 

 and irregular, with lines of black oxide of iron, 1-2^ ft. d. Clay-sand, blue, 

 grey, yellow, and red, 0-18 in. e. Gravel and sand, with chips' throughout, 

 4 ft. / London Clay. -|- Position of flint implements. 



