66 WEALD, OR OAK TREE CLAY. 



from hence to near Cuckfield, are generally paved with blocks of 

 limestone, that have been dug up in sinking the neighbouring wells ; by 

 an attention to this circumstance, (which I have frequently noticed in 

 other parts of the county) the marble may occasionally be discovered 

 in situations, where its existence might not otherwise have been sus- 

 pected. 



New Close; on Ditchling Common*. 



Blackbrook Wood ; beneath a bed of ochraceous clay, four feet thick. 



Plumpton Green * ; at the south end of the green, and to the north of 

 the rivulet. 



Street Green ; it occurs under precisely similar circumstances. 



Cooksbridge. 



Plashett Park. A well sunk near a cottage in the south-eastern 

 corner of the park, gave the following section : 



1. Ochraceous loam 



2. Weald clay _ _ ^ 



3. Sussex marble - - - 



4. Weald clay - _ _ 



5. Sussex marble 



6. Weald clay - _ _ 



7. Sussex marble - - _ 

 Spring of excellent water. 



26 1 Total depth. 



Short Gate. A well thirty feet deep in the Weald clay, passed 

 through two beds of Sussex marble. 



Broyle Place. In an adjoining field, blocks of the limestone are fre- 

 quently exposed by the ploughs. 



Laughton. In digging the foundation of the mansion lately erected 

 by Colonel Downman, of the Koyal Artillery, a fine bed of Sussex marble 

 was discovered at the depth of ten feet. It is a very compact variety, 



* These localities were communicated by Richard Weekes, Esq. F.L.S.&c. of Hurstperpoint. 



