EXCAVATIOX AT WATER WORKS PUMPING STATION. 1/9 



Ott M €K(i\v'At'm\ at the ^xbtol Wihitx 

 Woxh$ f umping Station, (Tliftritt. 



BY E. TAWNEY. 



THE following section w\is pointed out to me, as w^orthy of 

 exanrJ nation, by Mr. Christopher Thomas, a Director of the 

 Bristol Water Works Company ; for whose further aid in the 

 matter I am much indebted. It occurs at their Pumping Station 

 in Oakfield Road, adjacent to the engine house. An excavation 

 2 /-ft. deep has here been made for erection of a new engine. 



The material taken out was carted away as rapidly as the 

 navvies excavated it, so that very little material has been 

 examined, and that the lower beds chiefly; the upper part has 

 been already cut to a vertical face, and the stuff carried away 

 before I saw the section. For the upper beds then, one has been 

 confined to such small pieces as could be picked out without 

 interfering with the work. Moreover access could only be con- 

 veniently obtained when the men were not engaged, e.cf., during 

 dinner hour. The opportunity for finding fossils has therefore not 

 been a very good one. There is sufficient, however, to identify 

 the beds. 



The beds dip towards N.W, at an angle of about 5°. The 

 excavation shows on the S. side that a fault runs under the 

 engine house, and the top of Upper Park Street, forming the 

 boundary on this side of the Lias patch which is seen on Sander's 



