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that they now find the fiint-implements The gravel e is below all the beds worked. 
I had an excavation made in it, but without success ; nor was my search in the other 
beds more successful on my first visit. 
The Flint-implements I have seen in the collection of Mr. Amyot and elsewhere, as 
well as those figured by Mr. Feeee, possess the same general characters, being rude, 
lance-shaped, and closely resembling one form from Amiens, only they are generally 
rather more slender and elongate (fig. 6, Plate XIV.). 
The general evidence of this case certainly wants the completeness which the French 
deposits afibrd, but still there is every reason to believe it to be an analogous case. 
Unfortunately, the old part of the pit is now worked out and overgrown, but it is to be 
hoped that a full and efficient exploration of this interesting spot may some day be made. 
Mr. Evajsts and I had several trenches dug, but much more is yet required. In one on 
the south side of the field, the brick-earth (5) was only 4 feet thick, and was overlaid 
by 3 to 4 feet of ochreous drift sand and gravel, and underlaid by 2^ feet of small gravel 
(composed in great part of small chalk pebbles) resting upon a grey clay. The other 
trench, on the east side, exhibited a bed of yellow sand with a few flints, 3^ feet thick, 
passing into ochreous gravel I foot, and under it a seam of grey clay I foot thick, and 
then another bed of gravel, at the top of which we were stopped by water. At a 
distance of 150 yards from this spot, and on the other side of the small stream, is a pit 
in which the Boulder Clay is dug and where no other beds are exposed. 
This Boulder Clay caps all the hills around and forms a low table-land, through which 
the small valleys are cut. Its very uneven base rests on white and yellow sands and 
gravel (5). In places, however, thick beds of ochreous and ferruginous subangular flint- 
gravel, with subordinate beds of sand, form low hills subtending the main plateau along 
the valley of the Waveney. This gravel (2) is newer than the Boulder Clay against 
which it usually slopes off, running, in thin patches, up some of the lateral valleys 
(see Plate XI. sect. 3). 
The top of the freshwater deposit of Hoxne reaches within 6 or 8 feet of the summit 
of the hill, of which it forms an unbroken and uniform part. The adjacent hills are of 
about the same height, and there is no ground above a few feet higher for some miles 
around. No existing drainage, nor any possible with this configuration of surface, could 
have formed these clay and gravel beds, at the relative level they now occupy 
The presence and abundance of perfect shells of Valvata and Bithinia^ and the quan- 
tity of vegetable matter, render it probable that these beds were accumulated by a slow 
stream, or in a small marshy lake or mere, into which land shells, the remains of land 
* Other specimens have since been found in the lower part of h, and one in tlie gravel (probably c). 18G0. 
t Since writing the above, I have had the pit, and the intermediate ground to the Waveney, levelled. 
The top of the pit proves to be 42 feet above the adjacent brook, 53 feet above the Waveney, and 112 feet 
above the sea. With Sir Edwaed Keeeison’s courteous permission, we also had several trenches dug in 
the park to trace the extension of the Ereshwater Deposit. The results of these ojjerations are embodied in 
the plans and sections, Plate XI. Altogether there have been sixteen trenches and borings made in and 
around the pit. — October 1860. 
