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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, .June 19,
Road. The gravels consisted of the usual subangular flints mixed
with rounded quartz and quartzite pebbles, with occasional fragments
of pudding-stone. No traces of river or other shells were discovered
in this place. In the surface-soil were found some fragments of
Romano-British pottery, the relics of comparatively modern occupa-
tion. To the eastward of the railway-station, in the foundations of
East Acton ViUas, on the 60-feet line, the ground appeared to have
been disturbed. Some flakes and small scrapers were found in this
place, all of surface type, and of a dark colour. Two chipped imple-
ments found here in the gravel are worthy of notice as being of sur-
face type, although stained with the ferruginous colour of the gravel ;
one of these, of the celt-form, with an edge at the broad end, was
found at a depth of about 4 feet ; but whether it belonged to the
gravel-deposit, or had worked in from the surface, I was unable to
determine ; it is, however, completely gravel -stained. To the west-
ward of the station the ground rises, as seen by the contour-lines
marking the 70-, 80-, and 90-feet levels.
In Alfred Road, Section B,the surface being 63 feetabove the datum,
a small oval-shaped implement was found at a depth of 7 feet, resting
on the actual surface of the London Clay, and beneath an undisturbed
seam of sand 6 inches thick. The surface of this implement is very
much rolled ; T saw it a few moments after it was taken out, and I
have preserved a piece of the London Clay taken from immediately
below the spot.
In Section C (fig. 2), surface 75 feet, is seen the position of some
flakes and a flint, shaped like a rough scraper, found at a depth of
Fig. 2. — Section C, in High-terrace Gravel at Hyde House, Shalce-
sjjear I^oad. Surface 75 feet.
10 ft.
a. Surface soil, 6 in. b. Disturbed soil, 2-3 ft. c. Gravel and sand, ferruginous
and irregular, with lines of black oxide of iron, 1-2^ ft. d. Clay-sand, blue,
grey, yellow, and red, 0-18 in. e. Gravel and sand, with chips' throughout,