544 REPORT—1904. 
One may add that a boring (? unfinished) in Euston Park has proved over 
150 feet of Drift, at a spot where no Drift is shown on the map. This may be 
simply a huge pipe. 
4. Well-sections in Cambridgeshire. By W. Wurraxer, IRS. 
See Reports, p. 266. 
5. Note on a Small Anticline in the Great Oolite Series at Clapham, north 
of Bedford! By Horace B. Woopwarp, /.2.S. 
Attention was drawn to a gravel-pit between Oakley and Clapham, in which a 
small anticline of the Great Oolite had been abruptly encountered amidst the 
regularly stratified river-deposits. The trend of the fold was N.N.W. and S8.E., 
and therefore contrary to that of the minor undulations which affect the Oolitic 
rocks of the district, and which serve to counteract the general dip of these strata 
between Sharnbrook and Bedford. Prior to the opening of the pit there was no 
surface-indication of the disturbed rocks, but the arch was coated with Great Oolite 
clay which had superficially been disarranged and mixed with gravel. There was 
no evidence to connect the disturbance with glacial action, nor was there any direct 
evidence against such a supposition. The Oolitic strata may have been planed 
down prior to or during the period of maximum glaciation, when the boulder clay, 
which crowns the adjacent plateau, was laid down. ‘The erosion of the softer strata 
flanking the arch of Great Oolite limestone may have been due to the actiun of 
the river, the harder rocks having stood up as a low ridge until levelled up by the 
accumulation of the valley deposits. A portion of a molar of Elephas primigenius 
was obtained from the gravel; also a somewhat decomposed block of rhomb- 
porphyry, evidently derived from the boulder clay. The occurrence of this 
Scandinavian rock was of interest, as, according to Professor P. I’. Kendall, it had 
not been previously found south of Norfolk.’ 
6. Recent Coast Erosion in Suffolk—Dunwich to Covehithe. 
By JouN SPILLER. 
This communication brings up to date the record of losses on the Suffoll coast, 
and continues the Report presented at the Ipswich meeting, 1895, of which details 
were published in the ‘Geological Magazine’ for January 1896, Since that time 
scarcely a year has passed without the winter gales and high tides doing mischief 
at one or more points of the coast embraced within the limits above specified ; but 
whilst Lowestoft and Pakefield, Covehithe, and Easton have all suffered very con- 
siderably, the cliffs at Dunwich, until quite recently, remained almost unaffected. 
The losses may be summed up as follows :— 
Dunwich. 
All Saints’ Church Ruins and Graveyard.—The 43 feet of land reported by Mr. 
Whitaker, September 1880,3 became 25 feet by Mr. Teall’s measurement in 1902. 
Now this has all gone and about 6 feet of northern buttress and east end of the 
Church have dropped into the sea, Total loss, 31 feet in two years. 
Footpath at Temple Hill.—Mr. Whitaker says, ‘40 yards outside the wood.’ 
Mr. Teall in 1902 made it 38 yards. It is now diminished to 59 feet. Actual 
loss, therefore, 55 feet in two years. The cliffs extending away north and south 
1 Printed in full in the Geological Magazine, Decade V., vol. i. pp. 439-441. 
2 See Eighth Report of Committee on Erratic Blocks, Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1903. 
3 See Memoir of the Geological Survey, Southwold and the Suffolk Coast, hy W. 
Whitaker, F.R.S., p. 48. 
