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be inferred that he was a contemporary of these animals which frequented the valley of the Thames in the intermediate period.[1] This view is strengthened by the parallel case offered by the deposits in the valley of the Wily, near Salisbury.
Fig. 35.—Mid-Terrace Gravel, Brown's Orchard, Acton Green.
- ↑ Flint implements have been obtained from many other beds of gravel in and about London, at Shacklewell, Lower Clapton, and in various other localities in Kent, Surrey, and Hertfordshire. In some cases, as in those of Canterbury, to which Mr. W. G. Smith has directed my attention, they have been rolled in the bed of the stream before they were deposited, and afterwards the bed of gravel in which they lay has been worked over again by the stream and re-deposited, each change being marked by new fractures and abrasions. A similar series of changes has taken place in the lowest deposits in Kent's Hole, described in the next chapter.
