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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13958742353).jpg 478 <br> PKOCEEDIXGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY <br> May 9 <br> There is no doubt that the whittling is as old as the bone ; for be- <br> sides the fact of the cut surfaces having the same features as those <br> which are natural and their very existence being unknown until the <br> fossil came into my hands there is the satisfactory circumstance of <br> a few of them being covered with a stalagmitic deposit ; moreover <br> these facets are slightly concave as if shrunk from the animal matter <br> having been subsequently removed <br> It occurred twelve feet deep in the freshwater stratum of Barn- <br> well associated with remains of Elephant Ehinoceros and Hippo- <br> potamus <br> There is another class of facts in connexion with this gravel <br> worth remark ; and that is the pipes and what I shall name <br> ' walls The pipes vary much in size and length ; the particles <br> of gravel generally dip towards them though in one instance the <br> edges of these beds on each side were directed upward ” which I can <br> account for by a gaping of the gravel and material falling into the <br> hole while it was closing or by the forcible uprooting of a tree <br> The ivalls extend from the top to the bottom of the pits ; they are <br> more uniform in width than the pipes and are usually hard so that <br> when the gravel is dug away they stand out like walls At Ches- <br> terton one about eight inches thick had the gravel dug away on each <br> side for from twenty to thirty feet Its sides were hard like mortar <br> The direction was north and south One at Barnwell originally only <br> a foot wide after a few feet had been cut away terminated in the fault <br> shown in fig 2 ; and when a few feet more were cut down all trace <br> of disturbance was lost <br> Fig 2 ” Section in the Barmuell Gravel-pit showing a downward <br> slip of 6 inches <br> a Marl bed b Fine gravel c Marl bed d Fine gravel <br> The width of the faulted piece at the upper marl band is 7 feet <br> These seem to me to be the typical facts of the Cambridgeshire <br> gravels ; and it is only to be added that Prof Hailstone and Mr <br> Warburton in an early volume of the Geological Society's Transac- <br> tions described the coarse gravel capping the Gogmagog and Harston <br> hiUs From the Gogs Prof Sedgwick and I have collected exam- 36164927 111477 51125 Page 478 Text v 22 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164927 1866 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 22 1866 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36164927 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36164927 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13958742353 2015-08-26 06 56 08 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1866 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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