60 
W. WHITAKER-HERTFORDSHIRE WELL-SECTION’S. 
Much Hadham.— Hadham Cross. Coffee Tavern. Made and com¬ 
municated by Mr. G. Ingold. Bored throughout. Water- 
level 25 feet down. 
Clay and stones 12 ) 
Chalk with flints 68 j 
Horthchurch (or Wigginton).— Cowroast. For the Grand Junction 
Canal Company, 1849. Communicated by Mr. S. C. Homer- 
sham. 383 feet above Trinity Highwater Mark. Shaft 75 feet, 
the rest bored. Water-level about 9 feet down. 
Thickness. Depth. 
Gravel . about 8 8 
Soft chalk. ,, 65 73 
Hard chalk „ 32 105 
Horton.— Western end of the village. From information given 
to Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne by Mr. J. Conder, well-sinker. 
Sunk 71 feet, bored 30 feet: the greater part through bluish 
clay with chalk-stones and boulders, with a thin seam of sand 
yielding a little water near the bottom [ ? of dug well] ; below 
the sand is more of the like clay, but the boring is chiefly 
through clunch (Lower Chalk). 
Puckeridge.— Mr. G. Covey’s. Made and communicated by Messrs. 
Legrand and Sutclief. 
Thickness. Depth. 
Dug well (the rest bored) . — 19 
[Glacial ( Blue [Boulder] clay . 5 24 
Drift] ( Dry gravel . 8 32 
Chalk . 54 86 < 
Puttenham.— In the field formerly worked for coprolites, about 
three furlongs south of the Church, 1872 ? Communicated by 
Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, from information got from the well- 
sinker by Mr. A. M. Brown, of Tring. Sunk 115 feet and 
bored 110 feet. 
Gault clay, with a rock at the bottom. 
Sand, without water. 
Dark clay, with waterstones. 
This boring passed through either Lower Greensand or Portland 
Sand into the Kimeridge Clay, and no water was found, that 
necessary for the coprolite-works being obtained from the canal 
near by. The thickness of the Gault here would be about 150 feet. 
Badwell.— Mill. Communicated by Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, 
from information obtained from Mr. J. Conder, well-sinker, 
of Baldock. Dug 22 feet, the rest bored. 
Thickness. Depth. 
Moory soil . . 
13 
13 
™ „n M i f “ Hurrock ” or hard clunch. 
Chalk Marl. ) Coprolites and greensand . 
50 
63 
1 
64 
Gault, with a layer of coprolites at the bottom 
180 
244 
The boring was stopped without reaching the Lower Greensand. 
