THE SOUTH-EASTERN COALFIELD 



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Hothfield, after 105 ft. of Lower Greensand, stopped when it 

 had penetrated 513 ft. into the Weald Clay; Pluckley attained 

 a depth of 1,698 ft. without touching the palaeozoic rocks; 

 Penshurst met the same fate. But Ellinge and Ropersole 

 proved the Coal Measures, though both died of starvation 

 before attaining any workable seams. 



Fig. 1. 



Sketch Map of East Kent, showing position of Borings and Sinkings 



1 Boyd Dawkins gives 1,000 ft. above O.D. as the altitude of the Ellinge bore, 

 but it was determined by Mr. Stilgoe as 466-1 ft. above O.D. 



