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around, the absence of heaps around the hollows, and the 
growth in size of the depressions themselves. 4 The Denehole 
hypothesis, therefore, seems to be the only tenable one, and 
it receives support from the naturally strong position of 
Easneye Park, in the angles between two river-valleys, the 
flint flakes on its surface, and the old entrenchment on its 
weaker side, which mark it as the site of an old hill town or 
fort. Granting this hypothesis, these Deneholes would seem 
to present the strongest affinity to those of Blackheath, 
Charlton, and Eltham, of any we have hitherto visited. 
The geology having necessarily been put upon an old 
Ordnance Map, and the new ones not being yet published, I 
am unable to show with certainty the site of the house at 
Easneye Park. The only house at all near the site of the 
present mansion stands (or stood) on the little outlier of 
Boulder Clay, and is called Warren Lodge. 
HI. Notes on a Denehole at Cavey Speing, Bexley, visited by the 
Sidcup and Ceays Field Club, July 7th, 1883. 
This Denehole is towards the S.E. corner of Cavey Spring, 
at the northern end of Joyden’s Wood. Stankey Wood, the 
other spot at which Deneholes are highly concentrated near 
Bexley, is less than half a mile to the eastward. I was 
indebted to the Sidcup and Crays Field Club, a newly-formed 
society, on its second excursion, for a very pleasant afternoon 
and the opportunity of visiting the Denehole in question. 
Though our Hangman’s Wood Pits are all of them of great 
size, and considerably exceed in dimensions those figured by 
Mr. Spurrell at Stankey, yet we have hitherto met with none 
in the pillar stage; wdiile the three Stankey examples have 
all reached that period of existence. And while Mr. Spurrell 
has doubtless descended the pits at Cavey Spring, he has not 
given illustrations of any of them in his paper, so that the 
plan and section accompanying these notes (from measure¬ 
ments taken by Mr. J. Spiller, F.C.S., and myself) will be of 
4 The arrangement of the depressions in pairs at Easneye Park should 
also be noted as a Denehole characteristic. See account of the Lenham 
Pits in these notes. 
