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 occupation. To the eastward of the railway-station, in the foundations of East Acton Villas, 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 implements found here in the gravel are worthy of notice as being of surface 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 westward 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 feet above 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; I 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, Shakespear Road. Surface 75 feet.
