598 ME. 0. A. SHEUBSOLE ON SOME HIGH-LEVEL [NoV. 1 898, 



be demanded for the changes that are indicated. Another indication 

 of the time which has elapsed since the era of the Quartzite-gravel 

 is found in the fact that its southern boundary is now a plain much 

 lower than its own level. 



YII. Teaces oe Man. 



The traces, or supposed traces, of man which have been observed 

 in connexion with these gravels are very slight. jSTecessarily they 

 would be so. All deposits formed by current- action undergo a 

 sorting process. A Palaeolithic implement is a part of the gravel 

 in which it occurs, and an angular instrument would not be looked 

 for in a pebble-gravel. Such implements also are at all times rare, 

 compared with the amount of material which has to be removed in 

 order to find them ; but there are few sections in the high-level 

 gravels, and these are not usually available for detailed examination, 

 so that even negative results would have no special significance. 



It has been thought desirable, however, to record such slight 

 possible indications as have presented themselves. These have 

 principally been in the form of small flint-flakes having only one 

 ' bulb of percussion.' The value of such an evidence of man is dis- 

 puted, and disputed, I believe, by so eminent an authority as Sir John 

 Evans. The facts here noted must be taken, therefore, for what 

 they are worth. 



Pebble-gravel. 



Nothing observed. 



Goring G-ap Gravel. 



At Greenmoor Hill (600 feet O.D.). A very distinct flake about 1 inch 

 long. 



QuARTzosE Gravel. 

 At Bowsey Hill (467 feet O.D.)- A small flake of black flint. 



QUARTZITE-GRAVEL. 



Norcot Kiln (278 feet O.D.). A flint-flake, somewhat doubtful, but it 

 has a bvflb of percussion. 



Eose Hill Kiln (305 feet O.D.). A flake or scraper. Not a very good 

 specimen. 



Near Cane End, in rubble in a dry chalk-valley (about 300 feet O.D.). A 

 ■well-formed Paleeolitbic flint-implement. The appearance of this implement 

 suggests long exposure at the surface. It is stained of a v^hitish colour. Its 

 origin is somewhat doubtful. 



Local Gravel. 

 Near Upper Basildon (350 feet O.D.). A flint-' core' and a flake. 



Turner's Court (350 feet O.D.) This pit is worked for road-material. 

 It is said that a few flint-implements have been found there, but I have not 

 observed any on the two or three visits which I have made to the pit. 



At Moreton-in-the-Marsh, in the pit already referred to (p. 593). was 

 observed a large flake which had apparently been used as a scraper. 



