70 _ Aw SJ. Pickering—Borings for Water 
from Triassic outcrops. From their position they may be, I think, 
correlated with the Quartzose Sand of the Lower Pleistocene 
identified by R. M. Deeley in the Trent Valley. Wherever these 
sands occur in the neighbourhood of Hinckley they are underlain by 
thick beds of clay ; consequently they form a natural reservoir and 
yield a considerable supply of water whenever penetrated below the 
valley levels. During a recent enlargement of the main sewers in 
the lowest part of the town these beds of sand were encountered, and 
the contractors experienced great and unforeseen difficulties in 
keeping the running sand from their trenches. A large portion of 
the street subsided as a consequence of the washing away of the 
underlying sand. 
Beds 7 to 12 are a series of clays or brick-earths, which are, or 
have been, worked in several brickyards north, east, and west of the 
town, e.g. at Messrs. Hudson’s works, Barwell Lane. They are quite 
free from erratics, save a few small pebbles of quartzite and felsite. 
Nos. 13 and 14 are the lowest beds of the Drift. They contain 
a considerable proportion of Keuper Marl material, also numerous 
Bunter pebbles and rolled fragments of Coal-measure sandstone. 
Nos. 15 and 16 appear to be Upper Keuper Marls with bands of 
coarse sandstone or skerry. 
Nos. 17 to 22 contain a succession of fairly massive beds of Upper 
Keuper Sandstone of varying degrees of hardness, with an inter- 
vening 22 ft. bed of mottled marl witha little gypsum. 
Nos. 28 to 26 belong to the thick lower series of Keuper Marls 
containing the usual bands of gypsum. 
The second boring was begun for Messrs. A. EK. Hawley & Co., at 
their Sketchley Dye Works, early in 1915. After boring 213 feet 
without any satisfactory results the work was abandoned (for the 
present) in August last. Unfortunately the first 110 feet were bored 
by the percussion process, so that again it was impossible to ascertain 
the thickness of the Glacial Drift with any degree of accuracy. 
From 110 to 213 feet the engineers used the shot-drill, extracting 
cores of about 7 inches in diameter. 
The following is the section :— 
WELL-BORING, SKETCHLEY DyE WoRKS, HINCKLEY.! 
(330 yards S. 7° W. of railway-bridge over Rugby Road.) 
Thickness. Depth. 
ft. in. ft. in, 
1. Top soil, sand and gravel : : : : 2 0 2 0 
2. Red clay P : : : 3 : : 8 0 10 0 
3. Brown silty clay . : SO. 0 50 0 
4. Brown silty clay intermixed with red marly clay 
5. Brown silty clay with fragments of red marl, 
small pebbles of quartzite, and pieces of ~ 
green sandstone 2 0 15 0 
6. Red marl with quartzite pebbles (pebbles larger 
towards base) 
1 Six-inch map, Leicestershire 42 BE. one-inch New Series map 169 
(Nuneaton); one-inch Old Series geological map 63 S.W. Height above 
O.D. about 327 feet. Engineer, Mr. Chas. J. Ell, Luton, Beds. Commenced 
February, 1915; work suspended following August. 
