172 THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF FLORDON COMMON. 
exists, and the copyhold tenants of Sir Kenneth Kemp’s 
manor — held by the Kemps since 1372 — have the sole right 
of pasturage and sedge-cutting. Until the Enclosure Act the 
common extended eastward to the Tas. The road from 
Flordon to Hapton divides the common into two parts, that 
to the east being much the larger. This portion consists 
roughly of three areas : one of coarse pasturage on the north- 
east, a narrow strip of land a few feet above the alluvium 
on the north, and the remainder marsh, averaging about 
80 feet above O.D. 
The western portion consists of a small piece of marsh 
and a long narrow strip of higher land, having at the north- 
west the parish pit, between which and the stream are remains 
of old workings for gravel and chalk. The higher land on 
the eastern part of the common consists of Crag gravel 
gradually rising towards the pit which is cut in the side of 
a small hill. In the base of the pit a smaller excavation for 
chalk (upper) showed a few flints and one specimen of 
Belemnitella mucronata, Schlt. On the chalk is the “ stone- 
bed ” of the Norwich Crag, about 1^ feet in thickness, con- 
sisting of angular and sub-angular flints in a kind of “ iron 
pan,” and yielding a fair proportion of pre-Palaeolithic flint 
implements (first noted in October, 1908) of the same types 
as those found in a similar bed at Eaton, Earlham, Heigham, 
Little Hautbois, Swannington, Bramerton, Whitlingham 
(beneath undisturbed shelly Crag) and Tharston. The 
implements are of several different types and patinations, 
and some are extremely well worked. Above the “ stone- 
bed ” there are, firstly, about 16 feet of red, brown and 
white sand, and shingle almost entirely made up of flint 
pebbles ; secondly, from one to five feet of false-bedded red 
sand and gravel with a few flint and many quartz pebbles, 
both belonging to the Upper Crag series.* Above this is 
a stony loam varying much in thickness, from which a scraper 
of fine workmanship found on the talus, was apparently 
derived, and at the north-west corner there are patches of 
chalky boulder clay, one being three feet in diameter. In 
* H. B. Woodward’s ‘Geology of the Country around Norwich,’ p. 70. 
