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Tilbury, visit to site (Proc., iv., 1884, p. xcviii.) Brief notice
[20]. 114
Peat Beds, with tree trunks, of the Thames : early accounts of
(E.N., xiii., 1903, p. 136). 115
Royal Albert Docks (T. V. Holmes, Proc., iv., 1885, pp.
clvi.-clvii.; E.N. vi., 1892, p. 143). At Tilbury, it was
only the lowest peat bed which was composed of drifted
vegetable debris. Here all the peat beds are drifted,
and the bedding is more irregular than at Tilbury. 116
Royal Albert Docks, extension, visit to (E.N., xviii., 1915,
pp. 10-11). Alluvium with peat beds composed of drifted
vegetable remains. The fact is not mentioned in the
above report, but I have found numerous flint flakes with
pottery and hearth-sites, on the old land surface beneath
the lowest peat [20, 122, 123]. 117
Romano-British Surface, Thames Alluvium (E.N., xii., 1902,
pp. 163-169). Spurrell has shown that this occurs on the
top of the uppermost peat, under the Marsh Clay, and 8
to 9 feet below the surface of the marsh, which stands at
5 feet 6 inches O.D. [122, 137, 138, 144]. 118
Benfleet (F. C. J. Spurrell, E.N., iv., 1890, pp. 152-153).
Burnt ships, probably of the fleet of Hasten, A.D. 894,
buried in Alluvium [137]. 119
Walton-on-Naze (H. Laver, E.N., ii., 1888, p. 187). Polished
stone axe, arrow-heads, etc., found at Stone Point. [These
came (see 121-123) from the surface under the peat.] 120
East Essex (S. H. Warren, E.N.. xvi., 1909,pp. 46-51,7 plates).
Flakes, scrapers, axe-heads, arrow-heads, a very beautiful
curved knife, pottery, etc., found on the buried surface
beneath the submerged peat of the marshes. These belong
to the dawn of the Bronze Age. Also an earlier series,
probably true Neolithic, found in an underlying hill-wash
[177, 258]. 121
Hullbridge (F. W. Reader, E.N., xvi., 1911, pp. 249-264, 5
plates and 10 figs.). Describes remains from a similar site
to the above,. and on the same Stratigraphical horizon,
discovered by H. Rand, in the estuary of the Crouch (H.
Rand, E.N., xvii., 1912, p. 124, brief note of exhibit, pre-
sented to E.F.C. Museum). 122
Sub-Peat Prehistoric "Floor," correlation of (S. H. Warren,
E.N., xvi., 1911, pp. 265-282). A general review of the
correlation of the above "floor" [117, 120-2, 177] with
similar beds round the E., S., and W. coasts of England. 123
Dogger Bank (H. Whitehead and H. H. Goodchild, E.N.,
xvi., 1909, pp. 51-60, map and 1 fig.). Describes the