230 SHEPPARD : NOTES ON ELEPHAS ANTIQUU3 AND OTHER REMAINS. 
local, and contains no mammalian remains. The bed (6), like the 
lower gravel at Mill hill, contains boulders of Carboniferous sand- 
stone, etc., and remains of mammoth, deer, and horse. 
The limited extent of the Bielbecks beds is also interesting. 
Phillips says"^' " The basin of the red marl in which the lacustrine 
deposit is formed is very limited, only a few hundred yards long from 
east to west, and not so much from north to south ; the black ossi- 
ferous and shelly marl appears to be in one place only about 50 or 60 
yards across. . . . About a quarter of a mile to the east is another 
marl deposit, covered by 5 or 6 feet of chalk gravel ; half a mile 
further in the same direction is another." 
The bones, on the whole, are found in a similar condition, and 
represent a similar fauna in both localities. The remains of rhinoceros, 
lion, wolf, and duck, how^ever, have not been found at EUoughton, 
neither have any shells been noticed at the latter place, though they 
were found in fair abundance in association with the bones at Bielbecks. 
It is possible they do occur at Mill Hill, however, but the small size 
of the exposure of the lower beds, coupled with the fact that the men 
would not take notice of the shells, will account for them not having 
been observed. 
Phillips' remark that "Upon the whole, nothing can be more 
certain than that the bones in the black marl (at Bielbecks) were 
inhumed only a very small distance from the place where the animals 
died, that they had not been subject to the ravenous jaws of hyaenas, 
nor been transported from any earlier deposit," also applies to the 
Mill Hill remains.! 
List of Specimens exhibited when the paper was read : — 
Four pieces of Tusk of Mammoth, Elephas primigenius. 
Two Teeth of Mammoth, „ 
Two Teeth of young Mammoth „ 
Atlas Vertebra of Mammoth 
Small piece of Skull of Mammoth „ 
♦ Op. cit, p. 15. 
t Phillips notices "a peculiar corrosion into little pits on one or two 
fragments " of bone ; a precisely similar feature is observable on a few 
bones, especially the flat pieces, from EUoughton. 
