ADDITIONS TO THE PALAEOLITHIC FAUNA OF
THE UPHALL BRICKYARD, ILFORD, ESSEX.
By J. P. JOHNSON,
(Formerly Hon. Curator, Geological and Palaeontological Sections, Dulwich College
Museum).
IN a previous paper1 read before the Essex Field Club, my
friend Mr. G. White and I described some new sections
which had then been opened on the site of the famous Uphall
Brickyard. As a result of long and careful collecting from these
sections, we were able to add twenty-one mollusca, two of which
are extinct in Britain, and a rodent that is no longer a resident
of this island, to the known fauna of the Uphall beds. Since
then I have continued the work of investigation in the hope of
still further adding to our knowledge of these beds, and have
met with a fair measure of success.
At the time the above-mentioned paper was submitted, the
first pit had already been filled in, but the second, which was
situated in the angle between Cecil Road and Ilford Lane, was
kept open until quite recently.
Although the pit had then been cut back a considerable
distance, the section had not appreciably altered. It still showed
subangular flint gravel, with a few shells, passing upwards into
a fossiliferous bed of sand, the bed (b) of the accompanying
section, by S. V. Wood, of the old brickyard reproduced from
the Geological Magazine, vol. iii. (1866).2 Foreign materials
were conspicuously abundant, and I recognised among
them pebbles of white quartz and of liver-coloured quartzose
sandstone from the Bunter Conglomerate, of mottled quartzite
of the kind found in the Blackheath Pebble-bed, and of
flint derived from the Kentish Tertiaries. Above this stratified
deposit is a considerable thickness of modern debris containing
articles of all ages, from Neolithic implements to Nineteenth
Century crockery.
On washing a large sample of the sand I obtained several
examples of a species of Ostracoda, which Mr. D. J. Scourfield
has kindly identified as Herpetocypris reptans (Baird). It has not
been previously recorded from the Pleistocene deposits of Ilford,
but it is still living in the neighbourhood.3
1 J. P. Johnson and G. White.—"Some new sections in, and contributions to the
Fauna of, the River Drift of the Uphall Estate, Ilford." Essex Naturalist, vol. xi. (1899),
pp. 157-160.
2 The Editor is indebted to the courtesy of Dr. Woodward for the use of this block.
3 D. J. Scourfield.—"The Entomostraca of Epping Forest, part iii." Essex
Naturalist, vol. 10 (1898); also "The Entomostraca of Wanstead Park,', Journ. Quekett
Micro. Club ser. 2, vol. v. (1893).