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at a greater angle than the present surface, as shown by a small 

 circular excavation made about 120 feet to the south. In this ex- 

 cavation the brick-earths increased to 9 feet in thickness, and the 

 floor was traced beneath them, in fact two worked flakes were found 

 upon the floor, covered with the loamy sand. Coarser gravel with 

 thin seams of sand occur as the base of the valley-deposits is 

 reached. ^ 



Section in High-Terrace Gravel at Greffield Road, Acton. 

 100 feet above 0. D. Pit No. 2. (Scale ^ inch to 1 foot.) 











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Base not seen. 



S. Surface-soil. E. Subangular gravel with seams of 



A. Trail. sand. 



B. Brown Brick-earth. F. Bleached pebbles and humus 



C. Sandy loam. [Flakes]. 



D. Bleached pebbles &c., Floor [400 G, I, L. Coarse gravel with seams of 



worked flints]. H, K. Black seams. [sand. 



Many of the implements associated with the blanched stones are 

 also white, but some are more or less brown and ochreous, and a few 

 are still black. Among the flakes, fragments, and flint nodules 

 which have been worked, there are various tools and weapons of 

 Palaeolithic workmanship. The prevailing forms are javelin- and 

 spear-heads, ranging in length from 3 to 6 inches ; they are roughly 

 but symmetrically chipped by secondary working to a point and 



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