River-drift Man in the Neighbourhood of Salisbury.
Fig. 36.—Late Pleistocene Strata at Fisherton.
a = Gravel with implements.
b = Brick-earths with implements and mammals.
c = Alluvium.
d = Gravel.
The fluviatile gravels near Salisbury[1] have furnished implements of the same kind as those of the valley of the Thames in several places, among which those at Bemerton and Fisherton are the most important. At Bemerton, about twenty implements have been obtained in a bed of flint gravel, a, ranging as high as 100 feet above the River Wily (Fig. 36), and some of these have lost their sharpness of outline from having been rolled in the river, when it flowed at a higher level than the stratum in which they are imbedded, now forming the summit of the hill. It contained no fossil remains. In the stratum, however, on the slope of the valley at Fisherton, b, dipping
- ↑ See Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, p. 549, and Quart. Geol. Journ Lond. xx. 188. Stevens, Flint Chips, p. 47. The mammalia have been determined by Dr. Blackmore and Mr. Alston.
