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It will be observed that a few of these are land shells ; whether they were 
washed from the land to the beach in ancient times, or have only inhabited 
the spot since it became a portion of the dry land, I must leave undetermined. 
With these were found fragments of bone, the jaw of a small Rodent, 
probably Arvicola agrestis, limestone pebbles, comminuted shells, and small 
pieces of flint ; a few words respecting these last. 
Flints. — Mr. Day mentions the same as occurring in the raised beach of 
Birnbeck Cove, and remarks on it as a singular fact, since there is no rock in 
the neighbourhood at the present day yielding flints. In the geological 
chapter at the end of Butter's History of Somersetshire, it is stated that in 
the shingle of a small bay on the North- East side of the Flat Holmes, there 
are pebbles of chalk flints, sandstone, quartz, flinty slate, and porphyry. The 
flints at these three localities had most likely a common origrin whatever 
that origin may have been. May they not have been deposited at the bottom 
of the sea during the glacial period, and on the emergence of the sea-bottom 
have been redistributed by the waves, and mixed with the shells and other 
matters of the contiguous shore ? Or having been distributed over the surface 
of the neighbouring heights, during the period alluded to, they may have 
been at a later period washed by rains and torrents from the higher to the 
level, and mixed with the shells and sand of the beach, just as the Tertiary 
shells of the Isle of Wight are washed from the cliffs and may be seen on the 
shore mingled with the testacea of the present age. 
Supposed beach on the South side oj Woodspring Hill. — I have not yet 
succeeded in verifying my supposition that there exists the remains of an 
ancient beach on the south side of Woodspring Hill. The block of pebbles 
and shells discovered on this side was dug out of the scarp of the footpath, 
which ascending the hill side at an angle with the horizontal line which the 
old beach would naturally keep, can of course cross that line at one point 
only, thus making the rediscovery of the spot very difficult. 
Ancient Dunes. — The beaches referred to from their position at the foot of 
a precipitous cliff or steep hill, appear to have been accompanied by 
the sand hills or Dunes, so common in the rear of our modern sea 
shores especially when skirting a flat country ; at any rate there are no 
signs of them on this hill so far as I have observed. But remains of 
the ancient Dunes of Sand bay closely adjoining Woodspring Hill on 
the South, which must have been contemporary with these beaches, as 
well as some which from their greater elevation must have been of 
earlier date are well seen on the northern slope of Worle Hill from above 
the level of Kewstoke Church to the shore. The road leading from the lodge - 
gate, at the entrance of the wood, to the shore of the bay, is cut through a 
series of them, and they appear as terraces in the adjoining field, with the 
modern sand-hills at their base. The upper road, through the wood from 
