116 ME. T. LEIGHTON ON THE LOWEE [May 1 895, 



appear to be of about the same thickness here as at the last place 

 described, namely, 230 feet ; no chert or white sandstone -beds are 

 exposed, but ironsands are seen below the horizon where these occur 

 in the lane to the west. 



Continuing eastward, the next section is in the first hollow lane 

 leading south from the village of Blechingley — the lane to Under- 

 bills, immediately east of the Castle. Top of the section about 

 500 O.D., dip N. 



White glauconitic sandstone , 1 foot. 



Limestone, hard, grey, and glauconitic J foot. 



Bedded clayey sands 2 feet. 



Sands and cherty sandstones in bedded layers, yellowish- 

 white in colour 8 feet. 



Pebble- beds— false-bedded sands and soft sandstones — 

 the usual Bargate pebbles and clayey pebbles in an 



olive-white glauconitic matrix T 5 feet. 



Coarse, glauconitic, false-bedded sands 6 feet. 



Atherfield Clay, estimated to be between 150 and 160 feet lower down. 



The next section is in Outward Lane, running south from Blech- 

 ingley at the east end of the village. This section shows only 

 Local Group 4, but it lies farther south than the exposures pre- 

 viously tabled. Before reaching the hollow lane, a platform made 

 by the overlying chert-beds, etc. is passed over, about 450 O.D., 

 apparently some 200 to 250 feet above the Atherfield Clay ; the 

 cherts and the overlying 1-foot grey limestone are exposed at the 

 roadside. The following is the section in the hollow lane : — 



Top of section about 450 O.D., dip N. 



Chert-beds (of Local Group 1) Seen. 



Coarse buff ironsands 35 to 40 feet. 



Finer buff sands, clean in places, but usually more or less 

 clayey (particularly low down in the series), with in- 

 clusions of dark clay, and partings of clayey sand and 



sandy clay 25 to 30 feet. 



,cj f White and grey sands, sandstones, and thick sandy lime- 

 stone (Kentish Bag-beds), with Belemnites, Ostrea, and 

 other fossils ; containing dark calcareous clayey part- 

 ings and inclusions (most numerous on the lowest 

 oj-j horizons); softer above than below; at the top are 

 e " I stratified sands, with buff and dark layers, capped by a 

 .S ; bed of soft sandy limestone. The clay almost through- 

 o i out this section is calcareous ; I cannot say ' always,' as 



R [_ the section is rather overgrown and dirty 30 to 40 feet. 



Buff and red ironsands, mottled with whitish-grey clayey 



pipings (not calcareous) 3 feet seen. 



The next lane to the east, Coldharbour Lane, shows sections above 

 the 500-foot contour — nearly 50 feet of very coarse, false-bedded, 

 glauconitic white and buff sands, with beds of grit containing minute 

 Bargate pebbles. 



Still farther east, about the same level, in the lane close to 



1 These are, no doubt, decomposed pebbles of granitoid rocks. 



