94 Miscellaneous Notes on Deneholes.
some interest. It will be seen that this pit, though of small
size when compared with ours at Grays, is nevertheless in the
pillar stage, two being already formed, and two others in
process of formation, at the points marked "x." Here and
there could be seen pick-marks, as at Grays, and the walls up
to a certain height were, as usual, covered with marks of the
claws of dogs and other animals, which had fallen in and
vainly tried to escape. The shaft, was in remarkably good
preservation, the foot-holes being very distinct, and, owing to
the absence of the gravel capping the Thanet Sand at Grays,
the mouth had been enlarged but slightly. Just above the
junction of the Thanet Sand with the Chalk, however, there
was a hollow of considerable size on one side. The impression
received from a hasty glimpse at this hollow was that it had