1870.] coDRINGTON—HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE-OF-WIGHT GRAVELS. 539 
Near the former place it attains a height of 300 feet above the sea, 
and undulating with the cliff-section, it falls as low as 50 feet oppo- 
site Compton Grange, rising again to 100 feet to the west of this, 
where the gravel thins out; but the overlying brick-earth is conti- 
nued for some distance further. The gravel consists of flints, with 
chert and ironstone; it contains sand-seams, and is overlain by 
evenly bedded brick-earth. Tv the east of Brook Chine the gravel 
is as much as 15 feet thick, and the brick-earth 12 feet. 
At two points in this deposit, at about 100 yards east of Grange 
Chine, between 60 and 70 feet above the sea, and at half a mile 
east of Brook Chine, and about 96 feet above the sea, Mr. Wilkins 
informs me that remains of Hlephas primigenius have been found. 
In both cases they were from the gravel continuously capping the 
cliff, and not in valleys connected with the Chines. 
At a small Chine called Sheppard’s Chine, a mile west of Brook, 
are the peaty beds with hazel-nuts and twigs, which have been often 
described as lying beneath the gravel*. In August, 1868, it was 
plain that these beds were in a hollow in the gravel, which was 
2 feet 6 inches thick beneath them. Over the seams of sand con- 
taming vegetable matter lies 5 feet of sandy brick-earth. 
(c) Within two miles of the western end of the deposit which 
caps the cliff continuously from Blackgang Chine, are the mamma- 
hferous gravels of Freshwater, which were described by Mr. Godwin- 
Austen in Forbes’s Memoir ; and his description in 1853 corresponds 
well with the section now exposed. The lower beds contain subangular 
chalk-flints, with much lower cretaceous ironstone and chert, and 
bands of coarse sand, the whole stained of a red-brown colour. 
These beds rest on the chalk, and against a rearranged formation of 
chalk-flints in a chalky paste, which is perhaps a talus formed by 
subaérial weathering of the chalk before the deposition of the gra- 
vel. A curved line sloping steeply towards the valley separates the 
lowest beds from a similar gravel of a lighter colour, which is not 
always to be clearly distinguished from the former. A third gravel 
is again sharply divided from the second by a curved line sloping 
towards the valley. It is finer, more sandy, with much cross bed- 
ding, and contains many small white chalk-pebbles; and it was in 
this that the molar of Hlephas ‘primigenius, now preserved at the 
Albion Hotel, was found at a few feet above high-water level. Over 
all the gravel-deposits lies a stratum of brick-earth from 4 to 13 feet 
thick, containing seams of angular fragments of flint, which reaches 
a height of about 60 feet above the sea towards the Fort. On the 
east side of the valley another molar of Hlephas primigenius was 
found in the gravel, and there are many shells of Succinea and Pupa 
in the overlying brick-earth. | 
(d) There is here exhibited in a sea-cliff a complete section 
across a river-valley with its gravels; and the direction in which the 
river flowed was clearly from the southward, and seaward. The 
* Vide Webster in Sir H. Englefield’s ‘Isle of Wight;’ Geological Survey Map 
and Memoir; Mr. Bristow in Forbes’s Memoir on the Fluviomarine Tertiaries 
of the Isle of Wight; Mr. Godwin-Austen, Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc. vol, xi, p. 116. 
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