1870. ] LLOYD—AVON AND SEVERN VALLEYS. 213 
localities in question. On the east lies the gravel-pit near the New 
Inn, separated from it by a small valley, through which a brook 
runs; the brick-yard near Bricklehampton Bank faces the river on 
the west; whilst to the south is seen the shallow valley in which 
the pits near Little Comberton and Wick are situated. As may 
be seen from the Table (p. 216), the elevation of the drift in the 
gravel-pit on Cropthorne Heath is 33 ft. above the mean height of 
the freshwater beds in the four localities just named. 
Section in Gravel-pit near the New Inn, Cropthorne. 
Surface of Ground. ft. in. 
Light-coloured earthy clay, with a few pebbles ..................... RS, 
Red’ cohesive Clayaus.sweceme cust casees esse acecsacaause ete deassarina dv tice LENG 
Quartzose flinty gravel, with chalky-looking seams and layers of 
red and light-grey sand (whitish) ............-..0ccccecececeeeeees 
Quartzose flinty gravel, with layers of red and whitish sand (no 
Clrelllayy Sena) | Wecbdeen qehcetas BHP ANG caciie te Mayle ae IR HSE et 8 1 10 
Light-red sand, obliquely laminated with a seam of gravel 1 inch 
THEIL? «SE dorbegua Hees hoSC EHY Be ae ren Gaara te Coe U RISERS Re He nl aad ase 1 0 
Red sandy clay, adhesive when moist ................2...c.eenereeeees 1 0 
Michit-preysandly (Wwinitish))nesscreeeceaceseoereeecsteaee rect ce reectoes 1 O 
Blue Lias clay. 11 0 
A considerable number of large quartzose pebbles were mixed up 
with the finer gravel. A rounded boulder of Felstone, measuring 
about 2 ft. 2 in. x 1 ft., was found lying on the surface of the Lias 
clay. 
The gravel-pit near Little Comberton, remarkable for having 
yielded a very fine tusk of Hippopotamus major, now in the Worcester 
Museum, is situated at a distance of about a mile from the present 
river. A section in it was as follows :— 
Surface of Ground. ft. in. 
(1) Light-coloured marly earth, with a few pebbles............... 2 0 
(2) Fine, quartzose flinty gravel, with seams of light-red sand... 4 0 
(3) Light-red sand, with small pebbles (chiefly of flint) ......... 03 
(4) Fine, quartzose, flinty gravel, and red sand..................0+5 1 O 
@)ayVihitish-eolonmedy san meee eetietean seen -cewoetnna csr acesses 0 6 
(6) Fine, quartzose, flinty gravel, and red sand .................. 2 6 
Blue Lias clay. 10 3 
In the bed no. 5 I found numerous specimens of freshwater 
shells enclosed in streaks of light-red clay. The surface of the base- 
ment clay was very uneven. In another part of the same pit, now 
filled in, the Rey. W. Parker, of Little Comberton, informed me he 
had found the lowest stratum composed of mud containing fresh- 
water shells and remains of aquatic plants, lying on an uneven 
surface of blue Lias clay. For a description of the brick-earth and 
gravel near Bricklehampton Bank, I must refer my readers to the 
Strickland Memoirs, page 98, and the ‘Silurian System,’ pages 
555, 556). 
Boulders are occasionally met with in the freshwater gravels, 
occurring on the surface of the basement clay. The largest I have 
seen was found in the ballast-pit near Charlton; it was composed 
