Skeleton lately found at the Tilbury Docks , Essex. 147 
34*55 ft. and in the sand, 1*77 ft. below its upper surface. 
Above the sand was about 10 inches of “sand and decayed 
wood,” material evidently brought down in the channel of the 
stream. Still ascending we get “mud and peat” 3*24 ft., 
and “mud” 1*76 ft. Above this mud was the lower of the 
two peat beds seen in the excavations on May 17th, its 
thickness being 3*58 ft., and the depth of its base from the 
surface 27*02 ft. 
Appendix. 
Notes on the New Docks at Lynn. 
Mr. W. "Whitaker having been good enough to show me the 
excavations for the above Docks, together with some ol the 
remains found while making them, some months ago, it oc¬ 
curred to me that some remarks about them might form a useful 
supplement to those I have made about Tilbury. In order to 
get the latest information about the Lynn Docks, I wrote to 
Mr. Whitaker a few days ago, and from his reply (dated 
February 19th, 1884) I take the following details:—“The 
section at Lynn Docks consists of sand and shingle for about 
twenty to thirty feet, the top part being somewhat loamy. 
This sand and shingle is everywhere underlain by bluish-grey 
boulder clay. The commonest contents of the shingle were 
marine shells, bits of hard fossiliferous Kimeridge Clay, 
bones, fragments of pottery of various ages, and shoe-soles. 
Of upper-leathers only one attenuated representative was 
found towards the close of the work. Most of the shoe-soles 
had been w~orn ; they have marks of stitching. I have seen 
120 at least. One bone borer, one bone flute, one celt, and 
one beautiful arrow-head have been found. The Docks are 
now full of water.” 
The pipe, piece of pottery, and shoe-soles exhibited were 
found by Mr. Whitaker and myself during a visit I made to 
him in November, 1882. They were all in sand, fully 12 ft. 
below the surface. The oyster-spat and remains of some 
small polyzoan conspicuous on the pipe show that it was 
some time in the channel of the river before being covered 
up. The river flowed over the site of the New Docks before 
its new channel was made twenty years ago. 
