472 Notices-of Memoirs—Fossiliferous Deposits at Kirmington. 
The absence of glacial deposits in this part of the country may, on 
the one hand, imply that the area was never glaciated; or, on the 
other hand, it may mean that glacial deposits once existing have been 
entirely removed. If the former be the case, the bone-bearing deposits 
might belong to the pre-Glacial or to any younger stage; while if the 
latter supposition should find confirmation the deposit must be later 
than the glaciation. 
The site of the original excavation is still visible, the hollow from 
which the ‘marl’ was dug being now a reedy pond. The new 
sections consisted of four pits sunk in the vicinity of the pond. 
These pits were roughly from two to four yards square, and were 
carried down until the Keuper Marl was reached or the work was 
stopped by the influx of water. They were supplemented by several 
boreholes put down to determine the extent of the deposit. 
The sections revealed in the pits were as follows :— 
Section 1. 
ft. ins. 
Surface soil a 0-9 
Sand, with small pieces of angular chalk and flint 2 0 
Gravel of rounded chalk and subangular flint . ea 1 6 
Silty blue-black marl or loam, the upper surface very irregular 
and penetrated by ‘pipes’ and pockets of gravel from the 
bed above Be 0 boc oe LOMAS, 
Marl as above, with specks of vivianite as8 ae snaty y OL se10 
Black marl 6 0 
Lighter-coloured marl, passing downwards into gravel (chiefly 
flints) see bee ifs ak pee ae if atl ROAR 
Total depth reached tan 
Section 2. 
Surface soil @ ¢ 
Sand i 
Gravel... Bod Reb Sere is ee nO 
Dark silty marl, with gravel bias doo sis ae Bere ei Ae 
Dark marl : ze bad ee ek AO, 
Lighter marl 4 0 
15 0 
Section 3. 
Soil 1 0 
Sand 20 
Gravel... 680 “ag Boise ic, 0 
Grey marl, passing “downwards into black... ar Joos CAO 
Coarse eravel 06 : awe he BOD sO 6 
Solid Keuper Marl, blue. 3 0 
Solid Keuper Marl, red . 1 0 
18 0 
Section 4. 
Soil ® § 
Sand 3 6 
Gravell | <2. 1.6 
Keuper Marl, its surface dipping at 1 in 3 towards the old 
marl-pit : d 5 I} 
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