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in Bedfordshire, but I now turn to some others which have 

 been made in Hertfordshire. 



At the north-western end of Gaddesden E-ow in the parish of 

 Great Gaddesden, and at a short distance south of the Baptist 

 Chapel, is a brick-field of little area but of considerable depth. 

 The surface of the ground is about 544 feet above O.D. and the 

 spot is on what may be called ' table-land,' between the valleys of 

 the Ver and of the Gade, being barely 2^ miles from the bed 

 of the former stream and barely 1^ miles from that of the latter. 

 It is about 184 feet above the course of the Gade, and about 

 144 feet above that of the Ver. 



The sides of the pit exhibit vertical sections of a deposit of 

 brown brick-earth, from 15 to 20 feet thick, in which occur 

 three or four layers of rough and more or less angular flints. 

 A considerable number of palaeolithic implements have been found 

 in this brick-earth, mostly at a depth of about 10 feet, or towards 

 the base of the deposit. They are, as a rule, of ovate form, from 

 -)^ to 5 inches in length and from 2g to 3J inches in width. Most 

 of them are obtained of a more or less deep ochreous colour, but 

 one beautifully-finished specimen is of an ivory-white (see fig. 1, 

 p. 2). 



Another new locality is a brick-field about a mile and a half to 

 the north-east of the town of Hemel Hempstead. It is known as 

 Ellinghara's Pit, Leverstock Green, and is situate north-east of the 

 ' Saracen's Head * public -house, at an elevation of about 460 feet 

 above Ordnance-datum and about 170 feet above the level of the 

 Gade. The greater part of the brick-making material is of Eocene 

 origin, but above this deposit is a dark-brown argillaceous Drift, in 

 places 12 or more feet thick, in others measuring not more than a 

 few inches. It sometimes occurs in pot-holes only, and in some 

 parts of the pit is absent. 



Mr. Worthington Smith has obtained at least six well-formed 

 implements from the dark-brown Drift at this locality. They 

 are of ovate form, from 3| to 5 inches long and from 2| to 3.| 

 inches broad. The majority have a slightly -ochreous patina, 

 though one somewhat unsymmetrical but carefully-finished im- 

 plement is of an ivory-white (see fig. 2, p. 4). 



In my ' Ancient Stone-Implements ' ^ I have recorded the finding 

 by myself of two palaeolithic implements in the neighbourhood of 

 Bedmond, from 2 to 2-} miles south-east of Ellingham's Pit, which 

 not improbably were originally connected with similar deposits. 



It seems by no means impossible that the implement from the 

 neighbourhood of Dunstable, which I have engraved as fig. 17 in 

 ' Ancient Stone-Implements,' 2nd ed. (1897) p. 72, may after all be 

 palaeolithic, and not neolithic. 



The drifts which cap the hills in the north-western part of 

 Hertfordshire are of a remarkable character, and seem to consist 

 of patches of very variable origin. A great part of the material is 



1 2nd ed. (1897) pp. 51)6-97, 



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