1870.] coDRINGTON—HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE-OF-WIGHT GRAVELS. 537 
generally 10 feet, and sometimes 15 or 16 feet, and in a pit near 
Southsea at least 27 feet thick, extending to below the sea-level. 
(d) No organic remains have hitherto been found in the gravel 
covering the plains. Mr. Trimmer, who carefully examined the New 
Forest and the neighbouring country, observes that he found neither 
shells nor mammalian bones, nor could he hear of any having been 
found in the gravel*. Mr. Wise, in a recent work on the New 
Forest, notices the same absence of mammalian remains. He re- 
cords the finding of the os innominatum of probably Bos longifrons ; 
but the locality was Shepherd’s Gutter, near Bramshaw, on low ground, 
and in gravel perfectly distinct from that covering the plains. In 
the valley-gravels mammalian bones &c. have been found. ‘The rich 
collections made from the gravels of the Avon and Wily, near Salis- 
bury, are well known. At Fordingbridge, ten miles below Salisbury, 
on the Avon, the teeth of Hlephas primigenius have been found in 
gravel about 40 feet above the river, in which also were imbedded 
several flint implements now in the Blackmore Museum at Salis- 
bury. 
In gravels of the Stour valley near Blandford, 50 feet above the 
river, elephant- and horse-bones and teeth were found in some abun- 
dance t. . 
At Dewlish, situated on a tributary of the Trent or Piddle, 
which flows into Poole Harbour, the bones, molars, and tusks of 
Elephas meridionalis were found in 1813 in a pit on the side of a 
chalk hill 100 feet above the base. A molar is preserved in the 
Blackmore Museum, in the guide to which§ Mr. E. T. Stevens quotes 
the notice of the discovery given in the ‘ Monthly Magazine’ for 
May 1814. 
At Swathling, near Southampton, in the valley of the Itchen, a 
molar of Elephas primigenius was discovered a few years since in 
gravel about 10 feet above the river, and is preserved at the Fleming 
Arms Inn. 
Flint implements have been found in the tabular bed of gravel 
capping the cliffs near Bournemouth at 120 feet above the sea-level ; 
of these, one or two were found in situ by Dr. Blackmore. In the 
Christy collection is a cast of a large oval implement from near 
Lymington ; and recently two specimens have been obtained from 
gravel-pits on Southampton Common at 86 and 150 feet above the 
sea-level. From the gravel cliff between Southampton Water and 
Gosport numerous specimens have been obtained. With one excep- 
tion these were picked up on the beach, on which they evidently 
had been rolled ; but the sharp angles appear to have been smoothly 
rounded off before the rougher rolling on the modern beach took 
place. With few exceptions they have the whitish coating and por- 
celain-like lustre of the flints in the white gravel already described ; 
and as the white coating has been removed at the angles by the 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. p. 25. 
t The New Forest, &c. By J. R. Wise. i 
¢ Forbes’s Memoir on the Fluyiomarine Tertiaries of the Isle of. Wight. 
§ Flint Chips, p. 20. 
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