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around, the absence of heaps around the hollows, and the
growth in size of the depressions themselves.4 The Denehole
hypothesis, therefore, seems to be the only tenable one, and
it receives support from the naturally strong position of
Easneye Park, in the angles between two river-valleys, the
flint flakes on its surface, and the old entrenchment on its
weaker side, which mark it as the site of an old hill town or
fort. Granting this hypothesis, these Deneholes would seem
to present the strongest affinity to those of Blackheath,
Charlton, and Eltham, of any we have hitherto visited.
The geology having necessarily been put upon an old
Ordnance Map, and the new ones not being yet published, I
am unable to show with certainty the site of the house at
Easneye Park. The only house at all near the site of the
present mansion stands (or stood) on the little outlier of
Boulder Clay, and is called Warren Lodge.
III. Notes on a Denehole at Cavey Spring, Bexley, visited by the
Sidcup and Crays Field Club, July 7th, 1883.
This Denehole is towards the S.E. corner of Cavey Spring,
at the northern end of Joyden's Wood. Stankey Wood, the
other spot at which Deneholes are highly concentrated near
Bexley, is less than half a mile to the eastward. I was
indebted to the Sidcup and Crays Field Club, a newly-formed
society, on its second excursion, for a very pleasant afternoon
and the opportunity of visiting the Denehole in question.
Though our Hangman's Wood Pits are all of them of great
size, and considerably exceed in dimensions those figured by
Mr. Spurrell at Stankey, yet we have hitherto met with none
in the pillar stage; while the three Stankey examples have
all reached that period of existence. And while Mr. Spurrell
has doubtless descended the pits at Cavey Spring, he has not
given illustrations of any of them in his paper, so that the
plan and section accompanying these notes (from measure-
ments taken by Mr. J. Spiller, F.C.S., and myself) will be of
4 The arrangement of the depressions in pairs at Easneye Park should
also be noted as a Denehole characteristic. See account of the Lenham
Pits in these notes.