406 A. L. Leach—Bagshot Beds, Shooters Hill, Kent. 
gradually into normal blue or brown London Clay with septarian 
nodules. In the same series of excavations (1905) a trench at the 
junction of Shrewsbury Lane with the Dover Road showed the 
Shooters Hill gravel resting irregularly on a bed of fine clean 
yellowish sand quite unlike anything previously noted in the 
numerous pits and trenches opened upon the Hill, but as unfortunately 
the trench was only a few feet deep the relation of this fine sand to 
the London Clay could not then be made out. 
From the evidence of these sections I was led to think that patches 
of Bagshot Beds still remained beneath the ‘ gravel cap’ on Shooters 
Hill, but until the present year no opportunity occurred of confirming 
this view. In July a sewer trench 12 feet deep was fortunately 
opened on the summit of the hill (424 O.D.) in the main road a few 
yards south-east of ‘‘The Bull”, and the section displayed in this 
trench afforded what seems to me quite satisfactory proof of the 
existence of Bagshot Beds in fair thickness at this point. 
Section of Bagshot Beds on Shooters Hill, Kent. a, road-metal; 4, Shooters Hill 
gravel in reddish clay ; ¢, very fine pale-buff sand; d, yellow and orange loamy 
sand; ¢, pale-brown loam and clay. Length of section, 20 feet. Vertical 
scale, +45 inch to 1 foot. 
The new section, which remained open only a few days, showed, 
beneath the road-metal, from 1 to 3 feet of red clayey gravel with 
a very irregular base, resting sharply upon a bed of very fine pale buff 
sand without a trace of pebbles. Under the centre of the road this sand 
was 5 feet thick; it passed downwards quite evenly into 3 feet of fine 
loamy sands, orange and yellow in colour, and quite without pebbles, 
and these in turn became more clayey and browner in colour and 
finally indistinguishable from ordinary brown London Clay. The 
total thickness of the leams and sands below the ‘gravel cap’ 
probably does not exceed 11 or 12 feet; the proofs of their Bagshot 
age depend on— 
1. The quite gradual passage’ from and conformable junction with 
the Lendon Clay. 
2. The fineness of material and even bedding of the loams and 
sands, which differ in these respects very markedly from the very 
coarse, pebbly, and confusedly bedded sands of the ‘ gravel cap’, and 
resemble the loams and sands of the probable Bagshots in Sheppey. 
3. The very sharp and irregularly eroded junction between these 
fine sands and the ‘gravel cap’, which rests sometimes on the London 
