The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . thinning towards the east and west. South-wards the gravel extends to Swanscombe and Milton Street, fromboth of which places, as well as at Galley Hill, Mr. Elliott hasobtained many Palaeolithic implements. The Chalk and overlying 520 ME. E. T. NEWTON ON FOSSIL HUMAN REMAIN3 [Aug. 1895, gravel in 1888 had been worked southwards nearly to the high road,so that less alteration has been made since than might have beenexpected: in fact, the chalk which supported the gravel stillremains ; but the gravel itself, which contained the bones, h
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . thinning towards the east and west. South-wards the gravel extends to Swanscombe and Milton Street, fromboth of which places, as well as at Galley Hill, Mr. Elliott hasobtained many Palaeolithic implements. The Chalk and overlying 520 ME. E. T. NEWTON ON FOSSIL HUMAN REMAIN3 [Aug. 1895, gravel in 1888 had been worked southwards nearly to the high road,so that less alteration has been made since than might have beenexpected: in fact, the chalk which supported the gravel stillremains ; but the gravel itself, which contained the bones, has beenremoved, and the present face of the pit is about 10 feet from theexact spot. This change, although slight, is quite sufficient toprevent that verification of the undisturbed condition of the graveloverlying the skeleton which, under the circumstances, is sodesirable—more especially as no experienced geologist saw the spotin 1888, when the discovery was first made. Pig. 1.—Chalk and Gravel Pit, Galley Hill, Kent. ( corner ofpit, looking S.). a=Chalk. 6 = Gravel. e=wall, behind which is the high road. The figureon the right is represented as standing on the spot where the humanremains were found. (From photographs by Mr. Clement Eeid and Mr. J. W. Eeed.) My lamented colleague, Mr. Topley, after examining the section-with us in July 1894, was of opinion that the gravel then standingabove the Chalk was in an undisturbed condition, and, judging fromits relation to the gravels of the surrounding area, considered it tobe part of the high-level terrace-gravel of the Thames Clement Eeid visited the pit with us in April 1895, when aclean face was made to the gravel, as close as possible to the spotwhere the bones were found ; and the stratification of the beds, inthe section thus exposed, convinced him that the gravel was undis-turbed. Mr. Whitaker,1 in his memoir, alludes to the gravel at Northfleet 1 Mem. Geol. Surv. Geology of London, 1889, pp. 440, 441. Yol
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