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18.—Nores on a Srction or Wootwicn anp REapInG Brps, 
New Cross Gate. 
By N. F. Rosarts, F.G.S. 
(Read December 20th, 1904.) 
Tue erection of buildings at New Cross Gate by the London 
County Council, in connection with their tramway system, 
necessitated considerable excavations, in the spring of this year, 
in the hill to the south of New Cross Road, which exposed to 
view a section of the Lower London Tertiaries which I think 
should be recorded, to supplement particulars which have 
already been given of the neighbouring well-known section in 
the New Cross cutting of the London, Brighton and South Coast 
Railway. 
Owing to the kind permission by Mr. E. Riley, Superintending 
Architect of the London County Council, of free access to the 
works, I was enabled to make several visits whilst they were in 
progress and examine the section in detail. 
The ground occupied by the tramway buildings is about 600 
_ yards north-west of the northern end of the section in the 
L.B. & §.C.R.’s New Cross cutting described in the paper I laid 
before the Society on 19th April, 1904. 
The ground south of the New Cross Road dips from south to 
north, falling about 22 ft. 6 in. in 580 ft., the distance from the 
frontage to the retaining wall in the rear of the premises. 
The ground required to be levelled, which led to a section 
being made above the level of New Cross Road of about 22 ft. 6 in. 
in depth, whilst the foundations showed about 6 ft. more, and 
bore-holes a still greater depth. 
The beds seemed to change their character as they went north 
of the railway cutting, being less clayey and more sandy, whilst 
the dip being south-easterly the lower beds of the series are 
brought to the surface at New Cross Gate. 
The excavation being rectangular enabled the south-easterly 
dip of the beds to be easily traced. 
The following section fairly represents the southern side of the 
excavation :— 
FT. IN 
A. OB Ou sco ci deereen crtddsetesema ee ares 0 6 
Orange sande oxi.0ddcske-senass pppmesd 2 0 
Clay with sandy partings ......... 10 0 
B. +; Yollow, sand! ,.-.:vcereteanstee sees. 2 0 
Saridiyclaiyvc. cos ossuschvigsd ose cosness 6 
Orange)! anid wasssshs eke coe ceies 2 0 
