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WITHIN the last few weeks a metatarsal and an astragalus identical in type with those previously found at Bishop's Stortford (see Report B.A., Portsmouth meeting, 1911, p. 521) have been exhumed from beneath 3 ft. of native peat and 2 ft. of an overlying pond-silt of probably outwash from the Boulder Clay capping of the Essex Plateau. The site is about 300 ft. O.D. at Pledgdon Hall Farm, in the parish of Henham, on the left bank of the brook which flows through Stansted Mountfichet into the Stort. I am contemplating further excavation, with the kind permission of Sir Walter Gilbey, the proprietor. I may say that the shallow cutting for the new light railway to Thaxted makes the stratigraphy of the high ground to the north of this minor upland valley quite clear; and there again we have evidence of the “rubble-drift” movement on the hill-slope, of which I have already recorded a good number of examples in the Stort Valley. I reserve details until the excavation has been carried further.
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IRVING, A. Remains of Prehistoric Horse in the Stort Basin. Nature 89, 218 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089218a0
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