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overlaid in one part by a bed of laminated clay^, and a mass of 
buff and brown false-bedded sands, all belonging to the Crag 
Series. Bones have been found in the Stone Bed, and an elephant’s 
tooth, identified by Mr. Gunn as Elephas leptodon(^~ E. antiquus, 
var.), was found in gravel about three or four feet above the Chalk, 
but may belong to a deposit newer than the Crag. 
At Saxlingham Nethergate traces of shelly Crag with Leda 
lanceolata and Turritella terehra have been seen, and remains of 
Mastodon are recorded from one pit, but most of the beds seem to 
consist of unfossiliferous pebbly sands. Shells again occur im¬ 
mediately above the Chalk on the opposite side of the main valley, 
at Newton Flotman. Wood referred the shelly Crag at Saxling¬ 
ham to the Chillesford Crag. 
At Stoke Holy Cross the strata apparently become more 
fossiliferous, and in a pit situated about half way between the 
Church and the Mill Mr. H. B. Woodward noted the following 
section:— 
Glacial drift 
f Gravel and shingle - - - - 
I Sand ------ 
-i-y ^ p J Laminated clay and sand - . - 
uppei crag - S gjj^elly seam and stone bed, with bones of jSos 
and Gervus, Trophon antiquus ,, Mytilus 
(_ edulis . - - - « 
Chalk with flints (16 feet shown). 
Feet, 
22 
8 
2 
1 to U 
1 
Shells have also been found in an old well at Stoke (S. Wood¬ 
ward, MS. 1825) ; the species being apparently Littorina littorea, 
Purqmra lapillus, Trophon antiquus^ Cardium edtde, Cyprina 
islandica, Mya arenaria^ Tellina ohliqiia, as well as bones of deer (?) 
and Platax, 
Near Arminghall, and about half a mile south-east of Lakenham 
Bridge, the following section may be seen :— 
Feet. 
r Sand and pebbly gravel - - - 10 
Upper Crag - -I Shell-bed - - - - - 3 to 4 
L Laminated clay - - - - 2 
Chalk. 
The section at Arminghall is of interest in showing a bed of 
shells above a band of clay, which has been termed the Chilles¬ 
ford Clay,” and which rests upon the Chalk. Attention was 
drawn to it in 1869 by Dr. J. E. Taylor, who pointed out that 
the clay rested directly upon the Chalk, excepting the usual 
Stone Bed, and was capped by a bed containing Norwich Crag 
shells. The following is a list of the species obtained here by 
Mr. H. B. Woodward:— 
Littorina littorea. 
ISTatica, sp. 
Purpura lapillus. 
Cardium edule. 
Cyprina islandica. 
Mactra ovalis. 
Mya arenaria. 
Mytilus edulis. 
Tellina obliqua. 
--practenuis. 
