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in the amount of abrasion they had suffered. In all cases but two 

 I found them in the heaps of gravel, but the workmen who discovered 

 these two informed me that they came from the deepest part of the 

 u avel. One of these two specimens is a large pointed implement, 

 his terrace of gravel is continuous to the point where the Kennet 

 enters the Thames. 



From another pit a short distance off, near the cemetery, a tooth 

 of Mammoth was found some years ago. 



4. Kennet Mouth. 



Close to the mouth of the Kennet, gravel has been extracted for 

 many years, as shown by the old workings. The present pit shows 

 the gravel to be here about 16 feet thick, resting on Chalk, at 

 a height of 30 feet above the river-surface. It is a water-worn, 

 non-ochreous gravel, containing, in addition to the flints, the usual 

 quartzites. At the upper part are numerous furrows filled in by 

 washes of surface-soil. Fragments of shells and of mammalian 

 bones have been met with. The only species of mammal determinable 

 is the Mammoth. No traces of Man have been found. ElepTias 

 jprimigenius has occurred at three different points in this terrace of 

 gravel. 



5. Southern Hill and Earley. 



As we pass to the higher ground between the Kennet and the 

 Loddon, this gravel ends against the valley-brow, and is succeeded 

 by the gravel of the watershed. A section through the lower part 

 of this is afforded by the cutting on the South-Western Eailway at 

 Earley, where it is seen to be 7 or 8 feet thick, and to consist of 

 worn and comminuted material, principally flint, at 212 feet above 

 sea-level. 



At the edge of the terrace overlooking the Thames, an opening 

 for sewerage purposes showed gravel, 9 or 10 feet thick, of the ordi- 

 nary mixed kind ; and from this I have obtained a few flint chips 

 and a rude implement. The level is about 223 feet above sea-level. 



6. Sonning Hill. 



A section is here afforded of the gravel of the Thames-and- 

 Loddon watershed at a level of about 185 feet above sea-level. A 

 pit by the road-side, close to the railway, shows about 10 feet of 

 clayey ochreous flint gravel, with quartzites. The line of the 

 Great-Western Eailway passes this spot in a deei^ cutting, and a 

 spoil-bank formed of the surplus material has for many years been 

 worked for brick-making. From the gravelly part of this soil-heap 

 a few flint implements have been obtained, and are in the Eeading 

 Museum. One of them is a largo ovoid implement, ochreous in 

 colour. 



7. Charvil Hill, Sonning. 



From Sonning Hill the ground gradually descends towards the 

 point of confluence of the Loddon with the Thames. A terrace of 

 gravel occurs at Charvil Hill, near Sonning, at 171 feet above the 

 sea-le^el. A pit by the side of the road from Eeading to Twyford 



