The modern meadow-soil went down about five feet.

Then came a bed of moss-peat, one to three feet thick.

There had been a bog here at a time which, to judge by similar finds in other places, was just before the beginning of the bronze-age.

Underneath the moss-peat came two or three feet of silt with sea-shells in it.
Clearly the island of Jersey underwent in those days some sort of submergence.

Below this stratum came a great peat-bed, five to seven feet thick, with large tree-trunks in it, the remains of a fine forest that must have needed more or less elevated land on which to grow.
In the peat was a weapon of polished stone, and at the bottom were two pieces of pottery, one of them decorated with little pitted marks.
These fragments of evidence are enough to show that the foresters belonged to the early neolithic period, as it is called.