Palæolithic Gravels of North-East London

Abstract

DURING the present spring and summer several new and instructive sections through the beds containing Palæolithic implements have been laid open at and near Stoke Newington. For the first time in my memory sections have been exposed which show the real age of the beds near the valley of the Hackney Brook, together with the older deposits on which they rest. Stoke Newington, Highbury, and Hackney are now so much built over, and where not built over, the surface of the ground has been so much disturbed for market gardening, brick-making, and excavations for sand and grave), that one might live near the place for a lifetime and never see a section of four feet which would show the true nature of the uppermost deposits.