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In Thorpe Hamlet—which forms the eastern part of the city— 
there are two pits which should be visited. At the St. James’ pit 
an excellent section of the Crag beds is shown:— 
Feet. 
' False-bedded white, yellow, red, and grey- 
sand and fine gravel, with an impersistent 
mass of laminated clay near the middle, 
at the eastern end of the pit - - 25 
Upper Crag Laminated clay and sand - - - 3 
I Gravel and large worn flints, resting on an 
I irregular surface of Chalk, with nests of 
I ironsand and comminuted shells. Mytilus 
[ eduUs, Astarte borealis - . - 2 
Chalk. 
In the large pit south of Bishop’s Bridge, called Lollard’s Pit, 
Mr. Woodward sketched the section shown in Fig. 27 :— 
Fig. 27. 
Pit near St Mattheid’s Churchy Thorpe Hamlet. 
pSand and coarse gravel. 
Glacial Drift j g Brickearth (stony loam). 
f4. Pale grey and yellow sand and fine shingle. 
I 3. Streaks of laminated clay. 
Upper Crag ^ 2. False-bedded brown and yellow sand and shingle, 
I with “ stone-bed ” at base, 
hi. Chalk with flints. 
The clay (3) Prof. Prestwich* classed doubtfully as Chilles- 
ford Clay. He also remarked that small patches of shells are 
occasionally found in the lo\ver part of the Crag. 
Thorpe, about a mile further east, is one of the best-known 
localities of the Norwich Crag. Three pits have been opened at 
the eastern extremity of the village; the one at the kiln im¬ 
mediately west of the Cromer branch railway (where it crosses the 
Norwich and Yarmouth road) is the only pit where shells are now 
obtained. The general section of the Crag at Thorpe Kiln will be 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvii. p. 469. (1871.) 
