VALLEY AND ITS EELATION TO THE WESTLETON" BEDS, ETC. ] ^H 



Fig. 2. — Section of Gravel-pit, Gravel-pit Hill, near Easthampsteac] . 



a. Black peaty soil 



b. Bleached gi'arel 



c. Irregular black carbonaceous band [ 



d. Ocbi'eous gravel with sandy beds showing oblique lamination, j 



5 ft. 



The same gravel caps Caesar's Camp Hill, but is not worked 

 there. 



Hampshire. — Among the most conspicuous of the gravel-capped 

 hills in this county are Hungary and Caesar's Camp Hills near 

 Farnham and Aldershot. They are respectively 577 and 600 feet 

 high, and the gravel on the former consists of : — 



per cent. 



1. Much-worn subangular fragments of flint weathered white 50 



2. Tertiary flint-pebbles, of which about two thirds are broken and 



worn o() 



3. Small subangular fragments of light-coloured cli.erty ragstone 



and of ironstone-grit (Lower Greensand) (> 



4. Pebbles of Tertiary sandstone and Sarsen stone, some with rude 



vegetable impressions 8 



100 



Imbedded in a matrix of yellow loam with much-worn quartzose 

 sand, passing into coarse quartz-grit the size of i)eas. 



A tract of flat country iutervcncs between these last hills and the 

 smaller ridges of Hartley How, Bramshill, and Hazeley. The gravel 

 at the first-named place is roughly stratified and disturbed at top, 

 and is composed of : — 



1. Subangular worn brown-stained flints -j-^- 



2. Tertiary flint-pebbles, some of them broken yL 



3. Subaugidar pieces of ragstone and iron-sandstone with a very 



few small qnartz-pebbles J- 



Imbedded in an ochreous sand with veins of a greenish-grey clay. 

 The whole is roughly stratified, and the upper part much disturbed. 



The Conjines of Hampshire and Berkshire. — Between Hazeley 

 Heath and Beading the country is flat, with the exception of the 

 hills atHeckfield and Farley, near Swallowfield (300 feet?). These 

 are cap])ed by a little flint-gravel, weathering wliitc. 



A low tract of bare London Clay then intervenes at Strathfieldsaye 

 and on to Burghfield, where a bed of flint-gravel commences (on the 



