250 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1914 



NOTE ON A DEEP BORING AT GLOUCESTER 



BY 

 L. RICHABDSON, F.G.S. 



It has long been known that the Lower Lias is very thick 

 beneath Gloucester, and that any attempts at boring to obtain 

 a satisfactory supply of water as regards quantity and quality 

 are not likely to meet with success. Nevertheless, it is very 

 desirable that particulars should be kept of all attempts. 



The object of this note is to record the fact that a deep 

 boring — between 400 and 450 feet — was put down about two 

 years ago at Messrs Moreland and Sons' match-factory in the 

 Bristol Road, Gloucester — near the Gloucester Wagon Works. 

 Mr Philip Moreland is, unfortunately, not acquainted with the 

 particulars of the trial. All he knows is that the depth was 

 between 400 and 450 feet, that it was in clay " all the way " 

 (very little rock being encountered), and that "the required 

 and guaranteed quantity [of water] per hour " was not 

 obtained. 



The precise date of the clays on which the factory is built 

 is not known, but it is either of late oxynoti, raricostati or early 

 armati hemera. From clay dug out of an excavation made to 

 receive the foundations of a new chimney, Mr Charles Upton 

 obtained specimens of a Rhynchonella belonging to the same 

 species as examples of a Rhynchonella found not uncommonly 

 in the equivalent beds at the Gas Works, Gloucester ; 

 foraminifera of the forms that are usually met with in 

 the clays of this date in the neighbourhood, and spicules of 

 Chiyodota — 9 and lo-rayed. 



