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Vol. 53-.
ASSOCIATED DEPOSITS AT NEWBURY.
431
elytra of beetles, sedges, bracken, and hazel-nuts,
of the following animals occurred

—
Bones and teeth
1. Bos longifrons.
7.
Sus scrofa.
2. Bang if er tarandus (?).
8.
Ovis.
3. Cervus elaphus.
9.
Canis familiaris.
4. Capreolus caprea.
10.
Canis lupus.
5. Equus caballus.
11.
Mustela martes.
6. Capra hircus.
The reindeer was represented only by a drilled and ornamented
piece of antler, and it is doubtful whether this animal was contem-
Fig. 7. — Section in Norihhrooik Street, Newbury.
"®22&8ift^
2k feet.
feet.
Ufoot.
Q &
Modern macadam.
Mediaeval black road-metal, consisting of old
road-surfaces one upon another. The presence
of leather and horse-shoes throughout is con-
clusive of the age indicated. Black, owing to
old sewage-impreguation.
Fn shwater shell-marl with Equus caballus and
Cervus elaphus.
Brown and black peat, with hazel, birch, oak,
fir, and bones of wolf, boar, Bos longifrons,
etc. Also elytra of beetles, tree-fungi, fresh-
water shells, and Neolithic flint-implements.
ieet.
reen loam of sand and dark clay, containing
many freshwater shells, and the same remains
as the peat, excepting worked flints.
1 foot.
1
cro 1
Stiff dark greenish-yellow clay, with a few rudely-
worked flints.
^SCp^fy&'o' «  ■" ^Tb*' The lowest river-gravel, as at the pumping
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station (figs. 5 & 6, pp. 428 & 429).
.Vertical scale

4 inch = 1 foot..
porary with the peat. The other remains, both vegetable and animal,
indicate a temperate clime, unsuited to the reindeer. This piece of
antler, however, is interesting as being a slender bit of evidence for a
migration of Man from the North. The marten, however, indicates
a colder climate than that of modern