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IN the current number of Good Words there is a pleasant, gossiping paper by the Rev. J. G. Wood, giving an account of the curious well-like shafts found in the chalk about Erith. They are 40 feet to 100 feet in depth. Mr. Wood states that the sides show traces of having been wrought with picks made of deer antlers. He appears to accept the theory of local archæologists that the shafts were executed in “prehistoric” times, in the quest for flints for weapons or for some less obvious purpose.
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C., H. Vertical Shafts in the Chalk in Kent. Nature 21, 13 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021013a0
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