1912.] 



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There is rather an important point to be noticed. 



On the Continent the Loss lies in horizontal beds and 

 conforms regularly to the river valley in which it occurs. 



This deposit is abutting the inclined cliff, but the layers 

 of concretions are horizontal. Here they are broken off by 

 the erosion of the sea and probably extended seawards for 

 some distance. The deposit must therefore be an old one 

 and little else but the last remnant of a larger deposit. 



I do not look upon this deposit as identical with the 

 glacial clay of the upper part of the island, but I admit that 

 we shall have to work out the values of the clays, for as yet 

 there is considerable difficulty in correlating them. My work 

 of this year leads me to classify the clays as of four different 

 periods, and those with different climates. 



Antiquities. 



Hougue Noirmont on the Miellette side has proved to be 

 a very interesting position and has been the site of several 

 finds of importance. 



There have been found stone graves.* The De Hus 

 Dolmen is practically on the same Hougue. The site is also 

 one on which a considerable area of the raised beach of the 

 50 feet elevation, which with the Capelles and the other 

 Noirmont (near Les Maingys), mark an ancient sea level. 

 The Dolmen and stone graves were at the same elevation, 

 and now we have, also practically at the same level, a new 

 find. 



The Hougue is owned by our valued member, Mr. 

 J. S. Hocart, and a quarry opening out into Miellette Bay is 

 worked by another of our active Avorkers, Mr. Le Tissier. 



It may be that the interest the Society holds in this site 

 results from the action of these gentlemen in losing no chance 

 of investigation. 



In June a blast was made in the quarry and an un- 

 suspected hearth or Potter s Kiln was exposed. The above- 

 named gentlemen at once communicated the fact and working 

 parties were organised. 



The following is a description of the find, and ac- 

 companying it is a series of drawings giving all necessary 

 details. 



Position : The hearth or Kiln is situate on the east 

 side of the entrance to the quarry. It consists primarily of a 

 trench which originally had been open at the top, but was 

 found to be covered with the earth and rubble which had 

 accumulated by weathering since its abandonment, so that it 

 was 3 to 4 feet below the existing level of the soil. 



