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  53-] 
  

  

  ASSOCIATED 
  DEPOSITS 
  AT 
  NEWBURY. 
  

  

  42^5 
  

  

  The 
  presence 
  of 
  waterworn 
  sarsens 
  * 
  in 
  both 
  the 
  river-gravel 
  and 
  

   the 
  Donnington 
  gravel 
  is 
  another 
  proof 
  that 
  these 
  are 
  not 
  the 
  

   Reading 
  Beds. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1 
  is 
  a 
  section 
  through 
  the 
  Donnington 
  gravels, 
  near 
  Don- 
  

   nington 
  Square 
  (road-surface 
  277 
  feet 
  above 
  O.D.), 
  where 
  the 
  

   best 
  exposure 
  occurred. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  1. 
  — 
  Section 
  in 
  the 
  Bonnington 
  Glacial 
  (?) 
  Drift, 
  near 
  Bonninqton 
  

   Square. 
  (No. 
  4 
  in 
  the 
  Map, 
  PI. 
  XXX.) 
  

  

  

  2 
  feet 
  

  

  Made 
  ground 
  and 
  macadam. 
  

  

  Fine 
  brown 
  loam, 
  50 
  ° 
  o 
  qnarfczose 
  sand 
  and 
  50 
  % 
  

   tenacious 
  clay, 
  laminated, 
  and 
  with 
  occasional 
  

   faint 
  traces 
  of 
  carbonaceous 
  matter. 
  

  

  Coarse, 
  roughly 
  bedded 
  sandy 
  flint-gravel, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  with 
  dark 
  clay-matrix. 
  About 
  83 
  ° 
  o 
  

   brown 
  flints 
  (some 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  bleached), 
  

   10 
  ° 
  o 
  of 
  various 
  colours, 
  and 
  5 
  ° 
  q 
  greyish- 
  

   brown 
  subangular 
  sarsens, 
  varying 
  in 
  dimen- 
  

   sions 
  from 
  small 
  fragments 
  up 
  to 
  3 
  feet 
  in 
  

   longest 
  diameter, 
  the 
  largest 
  being 
  near 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  the 
  gravel. 
  A 
  few 
  grits 
  and 
  sarsen- 
  

   pebbles 
  also 
  occur. 
  Of 
  the 
  flints 
  60 
  °_p 
  are 
  

   subangular 
  and 
  40% 
  rolled 
  pebbles. 
  Large 
  

   black, 
  white-coated 
  nodules 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  

   gravel. 
  Green-coated 
  flints 
  are 
  very 
  rare. 
  

  

  Chalk- 
  with-flints. 
  

  

  [Vertical 
  scale 
  : 
  -g- 
  inch 
  = 
  1 
  foot. 
  | 
  

  

  I 
  obtained 
  one 
  fragment 
  of 
  bone 
  in 
  this 
  gravel, 
  which 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  T. 
  

   Newton, 
  F.R.S., 
  has 
  referred 
  to 
  Bison 
  or 
  Bos 
  primigenius. 
  

  

  A 
  cutting 
  on 
  the 
  Larabourne 
  Railway, 
  through 
  the 
  watershed 
  

   separating 
  the 
  valleys 
  of 
  the 
  Kennet 
  and 
  Lambourne, 
  and 
  at 
  a 
  little 
  

   higher 
  level 
  than 
  fig. 
  1, 
  shows 
  the 
  same 
  loam 
  and 
  gravel 
  resting 
  

  

  Note 
  II. 
  in 
  Appendix 
  I., 
  p. 
  433. 
  

  

  