at Hinckley, Leicestershire. 69 
WELL AND BORING, BOND STREET, HINCKLEY. 
(125 yards south-east of junction of Bond Street with Upper Bond Street and 
the Hollycroft.) 4 
Thickness. Depth. 
Feet. Feet. 
i Mopysoils : : : : : : : 2 2 
2. Chalky boulder- -clay : : : ; . ; . 10 12 
3. Sand and loamy sand . : 3 29 41 
4, Sand and running sand, light brownish- yellow : 4 11 52 
5. Red-brown clay, sandy P : : 5 : : 3 55 
6. Grey-brown sand ; , ; ‘ : 3 F 5 60 
7. Brown silty clay F : : 10 70 
8. Loams and clays, very ‘fine, light- “brown : : : 10 80 
9. Brown silty clay (as No. 7) ; : ‘ : : 9 89 
10. Reddish-brown silty elBy : : : Be ets : 11 100 
11. Dark-brown clay . : ‘ : : : ; 10 110 
12. Light-brown clay 18 128 
13. Dark-brown oe with pebbles of ironstone and grit and 
patches of red marl. : : 7 135 
14, Light-red marl with green spots and small pebbles” : 25 160 
15. Light-green and red marls with thin bands of sandstone 30 190 
16. Red marls with green mottling : ; é 8 198 
17. Coarse grit . * ‘ 3 : : ¢ 3 201 
18. Marls with gypsum . : : : : 22 223 
19. Hard grey sandstone, fine- erained 5 : : 2 225 
20. Hard red marl . : : 0 : : : 19 244 
21. Sandstone (as No. 19). : E : ; : : 5 249 
22. Hard sandstone, close-grained . : : : : 7 256 
23. Red marl without gypsum . ; : 34 290 
24. Red marl with green spots and traces of gypsum . . 10 300 
25. Hard red marl . ; : 8 308 
26. Harder red marl with conchoidal ‘fracture 2 : . Undetermined. 
No. 2 is the typical Chalky Boulder-clay of the Midlands, con- 
taining here a considerable number of Chalk flints and Jurassic 
fossils; of these the Gryphea arcuata is the most common. It is 
_ blue-grey in the higher beds, but assumes a redder colour as it 
approaches the underlying sands. In and near Hinckley it often 
becomes gravelly, the clay being replaced by a coarse sandy matrix. 
This gravel is sometimes matted together by a calcareous cement. 
Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are a sandy series of the Drift, and are, or have 
been, exposed in many sandpits in and around the town. They vary 
considerably in appearance, some beds being red and loamy, others 
pale-yellow and of a ‘sharp’ and crystalline nature; in the latter 
case the sands weather quickly to a loam on exposure. Interstratified 
with this sandy series are a few bands of very fine gravel, containing 
derived shell-fragments in beds of not more than an inch or two in 
thickness. ‘They also contain thin streaks of black carbonaceous 
material, probably coal-dust. Current-bedding is conspicuous in all 
the sands, which are entirely devoid of flints, and are mainly derived 
1 Six-inch map, Leicestershire 42 N.E.; one-inch New Series map 169 
(Nuneaton); one-inch Old Series geological map 63 S.W. Height above 
O.D. about 410 feet. Rest-level of water about 80 feet from surface. 
Pumping-test at a depth of 305 feet yielded 1,400 gallons per hour. Old 
sunk well 41 feet, new borehole 267 feet; total depth 308 feet. Made by 
Messrs. Peacock & Bird, Hinckley. Commenced July 23, 1913; abandoned 
January, 1914. Chisel used throughout. 
