DEPOSIT AT BARRINGILON, NEAR CAMBRIDGE. 673 
gravel is seen, well washed, with many small bean-shaped calcareous 
pebbles wholly soluble in acid. No shells were seen in it. The 
other section is given by a coprolite-pit in work, north of the corner 
of the road, not quite on so high a level as the Barrington pit, where 
there are shallow pocket-like patches of a fine flint-gravel; but they 
have not the appearance of a river-gravel, but rather of a trail or 
denudation gravel. ‘Towards the station, however, the surface of 
the ploughed ground gives indications of a subsoil of flinty gravel, 
and there have been extensive pits of flint-gravel on the north side 
of the railway between Foxton and Shepreth stations. These pits 
are not far from on a level with the Barrington deposit, certainly 
not lower. We find, then, that the terrace-gravel of the same, or 
nearly the same, level on the south side of the alluvium of the pre- 
sent rivercourse consists of quite different materials from that under 
consideration on the north. ‘lhe cause may probably be that the 
former occupy a line of drainage from the south, as may be seen by 
a small stream crossed by the railway between Foxton and Shepreth, 
in which direction lies the chalk escarpment, with its beds of flint 
and of capping flint-gravels. Whether these Foxton gravel-beds are 
of the same age as the Barrington deposit is a point on which I have 
no other evidence to offer; but the circumstance referred to may 
seem to remove any difficulty arising from their different composition. 
J have from these Foxton gravels what I believe to be a portion of 
a flint implement of the rudest type, similar to one which I have 
from Brandon Hill, given me by Dr. J. Evans, and to a portion of 
another which I found myself in a railway-cutting at Broomhill, 
near Brandon. 
The shells which have been found at Barrington do not render 
much assistance towards fixing the age of the deposit. Though 
abundant enough, the speciés are few, and the number of strictly 
aquatic shells remarkably limited. by far the most abundant kind 
is Helix fasciolata (or caperata); Helix virgata is also common ; 
Helix nemoralis also occurs, but is rare. The aquatic species are 
Succinea (?) oblonga, Limnea palustris (one specimen), and Pisidium 
amnicum. This is a meagre list. No specimens or fragments of 
Unio or Cyrena have been met with. 
The Mammalia hitherto discovered at Barrington are :— 
1. Homo, probably (by a worked | 8. Cervus (? species). 
flint). 9. Bos primigenius. 
2. Ursus spelzeus. 10. Bison priscus, 
3, Meles taxus. 11. Hippopotamus major. 
4, Hyena spelza. 12. Rhinoceros leptorhinus. 
5. Felis spelea. 13. Hlephas antiquus. 
6. Cervus megaceros. 14, Elephas primigenius. 
7. elaphus. 
CATALOGUE OF REMAINS OF ABOVE. 
.) 1 canine, 1 portion of humerus, 1 metatarsus. 
) 1 ulna. 
4.) 1 skull and part of mandible, 1 detached tooth, 1 vertebra, 1 scapula, 1 rib, 
2 metatarsals. 
(5.) 1 portion of radius. 
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