A SUPPOSED NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT.
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geshall, and Witham towards its south-eastern border), the
following remarks occur (p. 65) :—
" The Valley loams and gravels are not extensive, and it is probable that
some of the deposits that are really more recent have been included in the
mapping with the Glacial gravels, which occupy most of the valleys, and from
which they cannot readily be separated."
These preliminary remarks will render those which follow
more intelligible. The sections shown us by Mr. Kenworthy
Fig. 18. Portion of 6 inch Ordnance Map of the district around Braintree.
were (with one slight exception) all south of the railway, west of
the road from Hoppit Bridge to Buckwood Farm, north of that
from Buckwood Farm eastward to the river Brain, and west of
the Brain northward to Braintree Mill. On leaving Braintree
Railway Station, we crossed the railway a few yards east
of it, and looked at the "Old Gravel Pits," shown on the
Ordnance Map (Fig. 18), a few yards south-east of the
station, and between the railway and the mill stream. The
contour of the ground around these pits to some extent sug-
gested the view that they were in old river gravel, rather than