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de2:ree altered from what it was in Mr. Frere's time. (Por section of pit, see 
Fig. 11. 
" The present diggings show : — a. Sarface-soil, traces of sand and gravel. 
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 comer of Hoxne brickfield, 1859. 
old rocks. Bones of Mammalia. The matrix of this bed, in places, consists of 
clay like h, It thins 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. /. 
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 smaU ovoid flint -implement from AbbeviUe, 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 examming 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 
