WELL SECTIONS. 



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WooTTON. At Briddlesford Lodge, in the middle of the Farm Buildings. 

 Height 181 feet above the sea. 



From notes made during the excavations. 



Drift - 



Upper 



Hamstead 



Beds. 



Middle 



Hamstead 



Beds. 



Thickness. Depth 



- Clayey gravel - - _ 



r Yellow clay, much weathered 



J Dark -blue shelly clay, full of 

 I Cerithium plicatum and Melania 

 L inflata . - - - 



r Grey loamy clay - - - 



■I Green clay . . - 



I Green clay with faint red mottling 



WooTTON. At Briddlesford Lodge. At the south-east corner of the farm 

 buildings. Height 190 feet above the sea. 



From notes made during the excavations. 



Thickness. 

 Ft. In. 



'Mottled light-grey and dark-red 



clay - - - - 8 8 



Yellow and brown mixed clay, 

 perhaps reconstructed shaly 

 clay - - • - - 2 10 



Middle? Greenish-blue day - - 10 11 



Hamstead <( Tenaceous blue clay - - 6 17 



Beds. I Sand parting - - -01 171 



I Reconstructed clay - - 11 18 



I Mottled green and red clay, 

 I slightly carbonaceous - - 7 25 



Blue carbonaceous clay, full of I 



t^ Unio - . - - 5 i 30 



Though these two wells are only 2 chains apart the sections are quite 

 different. No trace of the bed with Cerithium plicatum could be found in the 

 second. 



Depth. 

 Ft. In. 



Drilt 



WooTTON, A quarter of a mile north of Beech. 



Thickness. 



r Gravel 

 .^ Sand 

 L Loam and ironstone 



A good supply of water. 



Depth. 



WooTTON. 5 chains west of Fernhill. 



Thickness. Depth. 



T, -p. r Gravel 



^^^f* - "isand 



Hamstead Beds. Clay 



