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IV.—On Deneholes and Bell Pits
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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In the Geological Magazine for July appears an article by Mr. Charles Dawson on Ancient and Modern Dene Holes. As Mr. Dawson mentions Essex deneholes, and comes to conclusions contrary to those arrived at by Mr. Cole and myself, the authors of the Report of the Essex Field Club on the Deneholes of Hangman's Wood, near Grays Thurrock, I shall be glad to be allowed space for a reply. For though our views do not appear to be injuriously affected by Mr. Dawson's remarks, yet as the Denehole Report is now more than ten years old it is probable that few of the readers of the Geological Magazine have both seen and remember it. And the impression which the reader would derive from Mr. Dawson's article is, that his Bell Pit hypothesis is something quite new, and therefore unnoticed by us, whereas it was an old view before the Report was written, having been put forward by the late Roach Smith in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1867; and an account of workings for chalk, of the kind described by Mr. Dawson, written by Mr. F. J. Bennett, of the Geological Survey, is appended to the Denehole Eeport.
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page 447 note 5 Report on the Denehole Exploration at Hangman's Wood, Grays, 1884 and 1887: by T. V. Holmes and W. Cole (with three coloured plates and other illustrations).Google Scholar
Note on the Bones found in the Deneholes in Hangman's Wood: by E. T. Newton.
Note on a fragment of Millstone from a Denehole: by F. W. Rudler.
On Chalk Wells: by F. J. Bennett.
Note on some Pits near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire: by H. B. Woodward.
Ensilage, or Preserving Grain in Pits: by F. C. J. Spurrell.
(Essex Naturalist, December, 1887.)
page 449 note 1 Note on the use of Pits in Brittany for the Storage of Grain: by Charles, Browne, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. (Essex Naturalist, vol. ii, 1888, p. 3.)Google Scholar
page 454 note 1 See Essex Naturalist, vol. iii (1889), p. 183.Google Scholar
page 455 note 1 Archæological Journal, vol. xxvi, p. 191.Google Scholar
page 455 note 2 See Journal of the Ethnological Society, new series, vol. ii (1870), p. 419.Google Scholar
page 458 note 1 It is worth adding that no attempt had been made to extract flint from a prominent bind seen in each pit at Hangman's Wood 4 to 6 feet above the floor, or from any other band.