in certain Superficial Deposits near Coventry. 63 
cyclas and mytilus, remarkably like some of the Purbeck 
beds ; a cardium and a lima in brown oolitic limestone ; 
oolitic stone with rhynchonella, the surface of which is smooth 
and almost polished as if rubbed; there was also a remnant 
of chalk with the cast of a pecten and a small bit of coal. 
Flints are not uncommon, and some are of considerable size.* 
Generally speaking, these fragments do not seem to have un- 
dergone so great an amount of attrition as that which usually 
characterises the ordinary detritus in this neighbourhood. 
They are, on the contrary, in most cases very angular, and Mr 
Whittem refers to an angular fragment of syenite not in the 
least abraded, and another fragment of rock not only worn, 
but very smooth and grooved; and therefore, on the whole, 
the inference would seem to favour the idea of their having 
been carried by icebergs, and if so, the age of the deposit may 
be considered to belong to “ the glacial period,’ and the ham- 
mer-head to all appearance was conveyed with them. The 
polished surface of many of the stones also favours this 
assumption. The term ‘ drift” is certainly inapplicable to 
this deposit. There is nothing to indicate that this relic was 
buried on the spot, for the soil had not the least appearance 
of having been disturbed, and there were no roots or peaty 
matter such as prevail in bogs, the spot being table land of 
some height, with an inclination on three sides at least. No 
bones of any extinct animals were found with it, and I never 
heard of any being noticed in the neighbourhood. If, then, 
we are correct in assuming that this hammer-head was depo- 
sited with the superficial accumulations above referred to, it 
is clear that the human race must have inhabited the earth 
during this more recent geological epoch; a subject of great 
interest and importance, but Iam unwilling to hazard any 
% In the parishes of Hatton and Hazeley, three miles N.W. of Warwick, there 
is a bed of gravel with numerous flints of all sizes (some very large), many of 
which are as fresh and angular as if they had just been dug up from a chalk- 
pit, and some of the neighbouring fields are covered with broken flints, inter- 
spersed with numerous small rounded pebbles of ancient and other rocks. Ice 
seems to be the only agent by which these flints could be conveyed in such a 
condition, and this stratum was perhaps coeval with the one near Coventry. 
This accumulation of flints may be traced for a considerable distance across the 
country, along a narrow and limited tract. 
