64 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
cined flint on the play field which was then being laid down
to grass.
IX. Saffron Walden. Fulfen Slade. Essex. Sheet IX.
S.W.
Longitude 0° 14' 3" E., latitude 52° 0' 2" N. Elevation 219
feet O.D., and about 50 feet above the level of the Cam.
Situated in a small triangular plantation of elder bushes
on the west of the footpath through Beechy Rye and about 120
yards south of the rifle butts. It is in the bottom of the valley
of the Fulfen Slade near the intermittent stream course, a little
more than a mile from the spring heads at Abbey Farm. It is
very near the Boulder Clay and several small ponds exist within a
few hundred yards of the site. The material is upon the Upper
Chalk and the flakes are turned up in powdered chalk by the
rabbits. There is little or no surface soil on the site.
Flakes only, with the pure white patina, are found on the
site. Occasionally traces of secondary dressing are observed.
The relation of the white patina to the chalk is again observed
here. The site is probably a working one only.
X. Newport. Essex. Sheet XIV., N.W.
Longitude 0° 13' 25" E., latitude 51° 58' 29" N. Elevation
300 O.D., about 100 feet above the spring-heads on Newport
Pond.
On the field south of the chalk pit a half mile S.E. of Newport
Station, the site is on a steep bluff above the level ground,
south of the village, which occupies the position of the Newport
Pond, that was drained in the 16th or 17th century. At this
point the Upper Chalk, Mid-glacial Gravel and Boulder Clay are
in close proximity and worked flint occurs over all. The centre
of distribution appears to be a small patch of Mid-glacial, or
perhaps Tertiary, gravel, which out-crops between the Chalk
and the Boulder Clay. At the lower part of the site the Chalk
outcrops and a very chalky soil is present, but the bulk is a
sandy loam which passes into clay on its eastern edge.
The implements and worked flakes on this area are very
numerous and consist of many types of scrapers, borers, hammer
stones, knife flakes, cores, &c. Small, well formed, long flakes
are numerous. Most of the flint is derived either from the