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I WAS not aware that it had occurred to Mr. Clement Reid, before it had done so to me, whether the Elephant Trench might have been excavated by man. He does not refer to this in his survey memoir on the Dorchester district; and so far as I can recollect he did not mention it when I described the trench with lantern slides at the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge in 1904. He now states (NATURE, Sept. 25) that he is convinced that the trench was due to natural agencies, and. suggests that it was probably wind-cut by the swirl of the fine dust-like quartz sand which, mixed with polished flints, now fills the lower part.
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FISHER, O. The Elephant Trench at Dewlish—Was it Dug? . Nature 92, 166 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092166a0
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