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ME. E. T. NEWTON ON FOSSIL HUMAN REMAIN3 [Aug. 1895, 



gravel in 1888 had been worked southwards nearly to the high road, 

 so that less alteration has been made since than might have been 

 expected: in fact, the chalk which supported the gravel still 

 remains ; but the gravel itself, which contained the bones, has been 

 removed, and the present face of the pit is about 10 feet from the 

 exact spot. This change, although slight, is quite sufficient to 

 prevent that verification of the undisturbed condition of the gravel 

 overlying the skeleton which, under the circumstances, is so 

 desirable — more especially as no experienced geologist saw the spot 

 in 1888, when the discovery was first made. 



Pig. 1. — Chalk and Gravel Pit, Galley Hill, Kent. (S.E. corner of 

 pit, looking S.) 



a=Chalk. 6 = Gravel. e=wall, behind which is the high road. The figure 

 on the right is represented as standing on the spot where the human 

 remains were found. 



(From photographs by Mr. Clement Eeid and Mr. J. W. Eeed.) 



My lamented colleague, Mr. Topley, after examining the section 

 -with us in July 1894, was of opinion that the gravel then standing 

 above the Chalk was in an undisturbed condition, and, judging from 

 its relation to the gravels of the surrounding area, considered it to 

 be part of the high-level terrace-gravel of the Thames Valley. 

 Mr. Clement Eeid visited the pit with us in April 1895, when a 

 clean face was made to the gravel, as close as possible to the spot 

 where the bones were found ; and the stratification of the beds, in 

 the section thus exposed, convinced him that the gravel was undis- 

 turbed. 



Mr. Whitaker, 1 in his memoir, alludes to the gravel at Northfleet 



1 Mem. Geol. Surv. ' Geology of London,' 1889, pp. 440, 441. 



