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FIELD EXCURSION TO CROMER, NORWICH, AND LOWESTOFT. 
JULY 9th-14th, 1903. 
BY F. W. HARMER, F.G.S. 
The special object of tliis excursion was to study, as far 
as might be possible during the short time allotted to it, the 
Glacial deposits of Norfolk, and their relation to those of the 
North of England.* 
Assembling the night before at Tucker's Royal Hotel. 
Cromer, the excursionists took train to North Walsham on 
the morning of Thursday, July 9tli, proceeding thence by carriage 
to Hasboro' (Happisburgh), at the south-eastern termination of 
the cliff section. A pleasant walk of about eight miles along 
the beach, in delightful weather, which fortunately lasted during 
the whole visit, brought them to Trimingham ; there a conveyance 
awaited them for North Walsham, from whence they returned 
to Cromer in the evening. 
The Pleistocene beds of East Anglia were divided b}^ the 
late Searles V. Wood, Jun., into Lower, Middle, and Upper, 
those of the North Norfolk coast, the Cromer Till and the 
Contorted Drift, being placed by him in the first division. The 
Cromer Till, a bed of tough unstratified boulder-clay, of a dark 
blue colour, occurs at Hasboro' at the base of the cliff, there 
about 30 feet in height. It was seen to contain abundantly 
fragments of grey flint and hard chalk from the Wolds of Lincoln- 
shire or Yorkshire, some of the chalk being scratched or striated, 
together with many broken shells of recent species, especially 
Tellina balthica, Cardium edule, and Cyprina islandica. Mr. 
Clement Reid has noted the much less frequent occurrence in the 
till of Red Chalk, Kimeridge Clay, and of detritus from the Lias, 
the Trias, and the Carboniferous strata, together with boulders 
of igneous rocks, some of which are of Scandinavian origin. 
Prof. P. F. Kendall, who joined the party at Hasboro', 
announced the discovery a few days before, at Bacton, three 
* Reference is suggested to the admirable contour maps of Norfolk 
and Suffolk, recently published by Bartholomew (Is. each), on the scale 
of two miles to the inch. 
