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degree altered from what it was in Mx. Frere's time. (For section of pit. see 

 Fig. 11. 



"The present diggings show: — a. Surface-soil, traces of sand and gravel. 

 b. Brown and greyish clay, not calcareous, — -used for brick-earth; with an 

 irregular central carbonaceous or peaty seam. Two flint -implements are marked 

 in the_ position assigned to them by the workmen, by whom they were found 

 last winter, c. Yellow sub-angular flint-gravel, with a certain proportion of 

 small chalk pebbles, and a few pebbles of siliceous sandstone, quartz, and other 



Fig. 11.— Section in south-west corner of Hoxne brickfield, 1859. 



old rocks. Bones of Mammalia. The matrix of this bed, in places, consists of 

 clay like b, It thiiib out to the westward, d. Bluish and grey calcareous clay, 

 in some places very peaty ; lower part with seams or partings of sand. Wood 

 and vegetable remains. Land and freshwater shells. Bones of Mammalia, 

 e. Gravel like c, but smaller, more worn, and with more chalk pebbles, f. 

 Calcareous grey clay, more or less peaty, with freshwater shells (I had a boring 

 made in this bed to a depth of seventeen feet, but no bottom was reached). 



* I was fortunate in meeting with an old man who had worked in the pit 

 since 1801. On showing him a small ovoid flint-implement from Abbevilie, he 

 stated that many similar stones were formerly met with here, but they were 

 larger and more pointed. Such specimens were now rare ; only two had been 

 found, at a depth of seven and ten feet from the surface in the clay (b), in the 

 course of the preceding winter, and they had not been kept. However, after 

 a short search in a rubbish heap, the men recovered one specimen. On a 

 subsequent visit with Mr. Evans we were more successful. We had a trench 

 dug on the east of the field to the depth of eleven feet, and in examining the 

 ground as it was thrown out by the men, Mr. Evans discovered in the bed 

 of gravel, No. 4, a flint-implement perfect except the point, which had been 

 broken off by the pick of the workmen and could not be recovered. This 



