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undoubtedly a manufactory of them They were found 
about fifty years ago. The following is the description of the 
strata given by Mr. Spurdens from memory : — 
FKET IK. 
Vegetable mould ... ... ... 2 0 
Argillaceous sand, which graduated into ... 1 G 
Brickearth or stiff clay ... 8 or 9 0 
Sand ... ... ... 2 or 3 0 
Wood and vegetable matter (Hazel nuts, etc.) i 2 G 
> or 
In this bed the flints were found. J 3 0 
Brickearth for which the pit was worked, 
which burned into a red brick. 
“The two or three feet of sand above, was full of marine shells 
and bones. What the shells were cannot now be determined, 
but Mr. S. has one of the bones which is a vertebra of 
Plesiosaurus.” 
Accompanying theko notes is a pencil drawing of a Palaeolithic 
implement, seven inches long by three at its widest part. 
This most nearly resembles the implement given on Plate xv. in 
Vol.'xiii., of the ‘ Archaeologia,’ by John Prere (1797), and re- 
produced by Mr. John Evans in Voh xxxviii. (18G0.) 
My grandfather did not appear to be acquainted with Mr. Frere’s 
paper ; but the section noted above corresponds very nearly with 
that printed so long previously, and adds a little further infor- 
mation, from which it appears that the brickearth then worked 
was beneath the bed yielding the implements. 
On another occasion, June of this year (1834), he went to Mr. 
John Gunn’s at Irstead, and the following note is made of tho 
visit.* 
“Thursday morning up at G o’clock, and went with Mr. Gunn 
upon the [Barton] Broad. Sailod down to the south end to look 
for the stump of an oak tree which lately stood on the island of 
peat there, but it had disappeared. There did not appear to us to 
have been any particular narrowing of that part of the valley 
(resembling a gorge) whereby tbe formation might be attributed to 
natural causes. It most probably is artificial. Mr. Gunn, sen. 
• In this year lie seems to have been first in correspondence with Mr. 
(then the Rev.) John Gunn. 
