CLOISTERED OYSTERS
Numerous odd relics, including the remains of about 800 victims of the G^eat Plague, have been uncovered during rebuilding operations at the Bank of England, But few have so excited museum curators as a colony of fossilised oysters recently unearthed while boring a new artesian well. Compared with ordinary oysters, these bivalves are giants, their shell span ranging from five to eight inches. Experts''can only place their age at "millions of years." According to Mr. Henry Dewey, of the Geological Survey, ah extensive bed of similar oysters exists below London just above the chalk level. It extends, he declares, as »far afield as Reading, over which the sea once lapped. Specimens are occasionally dug out of a pit near Epsom, where this bed approaches surface level, but in the city it/lies far from human sight, at a depth of approximately 200 feet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 11
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144CLOISTERED OYSTERS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 11
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