BEACHES, ETC., OE THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND. 



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I take these rubble-beds to be the equivalents of the Head on 

 the coast, and of the angular drift at Chilton. They have not 

 the characters of a beach, and they are all on different levels, 

 dependent on the shelter afforded. The water-worn appearance of 

 the Oolite fragments is due solely to the action of the rain-waters 

 in dissolving off their angles (just as the broken fragments of 

 limestone and Oolite on the surface of those rocks have been rounded 

 in place by the same action), though, owing to the softness of this 

 Oolite, even the slight attrition attending their descent might 

 have sufficed to take off the sharper angles. 



(12) The Malvern Hills. — As with the Cotteswolds, a local 

 angular drift, occasionally containing mammalian remains, occurs at 

 several places on the slopes of these hills. The Eev. W. S. Symonds ^ 

 mentions that a number of large bones were discovered in digging 

 the foundations of the Imperial Hotel adjoining Malvern railway- 

 station, the height of which is about 300 feet above sea-level. The 

 ground rises steeply westward to the crest of the hills, and slopes down 

 to the plain below. The excavation passed, Mr. Symonds remarked, 

 " through a thick mass of local angular debris, accumulated from 

 the hills above, and had exposed a stiff red Till or Boulder Clay 



which contained JSTorthern Drift pebbles and angular erratics 



Several of the bones of Rhinoceros were as fresh and unworn as if 



Fig. 15. — Diagram-section on the side of Malvern Hill, 



a. Rubble-drift (local), with mammalian remains. 



1. New Red Sandstone. 



2. Metamorphic rocks. 



they were derived from newly opened Cave-earth, but very brittle. 

 There were also the remains of molar teeth and broken tusks of 



the Mammoth The red Till was found at two other localities 



not far from Malvern ; it contained mammalian remains, but there 

 were not, as far as I know, any Northern Drift pebbles." When I 

 visited the spot, the section was no longer visible. Its position is 

 shown in the above diagram-section (fig. 15). 



Mr. Symonds particularly noticed the perfect preservation of 

 mammalian remains not only at this, but at other high levels, 



1 ' The Severn Straits' (1883), p. 30. 



