SOME NEW SECTIONS AT ILFORD.
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[We have given a few pictures of the old Lodge in the text
and in Plate IV., which will serve to illustrate some points in
this very interesting paper of Mr. Love's. On reading
Mr. Waller's document, one remarks that in the description
of the second "house or keeper's lodge" at High Beach it
is said to be "built of tymber but after the ordinary manner"
(E.N. vii., page 84). Can these words be taken to indicate that
the "Greate Standinge" on Dannett's Hill was not built after
the ordinary manner, but was of an exceptional character ?
We shall be very glad to know from architects or students
of old buildings, whether any structure analogous to the Lodge
in its original state is known to exist. As at present advised,
the "Greate Standinge" appears to be unique.—Ed.
SOME NEW SECTIONS IN, AND CONTRI-
BUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF, THE
RIVER DRIFT OF THE UPHALL ESTATE,
ILFORD, ESSEX.
By J. P. JOHNSON and G. WHITE.
EVER since the days of the Uphall brickyard where Sir
Antonio Brady obtained the magnificent series of
mammalian remains which now occupies so prominent a position
in our National Collection, the small remnant of those remark-
ably fossiliferous beds of gravel, sand, and loam, have been
hidden from the geologist. It is true there was formerly a small
pit, about eight feet in width and nearly twice that in depth,
sunk in a corner of the famous brickfield itself, but as this was
half filled with timber and as it was practically unfossiliferous
(a fragment of bone was the reward of a whole afternoon's
search) it could not by any means be regarded as a representa-
tive section. Towards the end of July, 1899, one of us had
occasion to visit the district on business and was delighted to
find that this pit, which is situated on the west side of Ilford (or
Barking) Lane had been enlarged and that another had been
opened close by, to supply building materials for the houses now
being erected on the classical site. A few enquiries amongst
the men at work in the first mentioned pit elicited the informa-
tion that they had come across several bones during the process
of excavation ; and they produced among other things a complete
left ramus of Rhinoceros leptorhinus. The section showed a
fossiliferous bed of sand, four feet in thickness, passing down