. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. BARTONIAN MAMMALS OF HAMPSHIRE BASIN 211 recorded, described as 'almost white silty clay w. brown yellow mottle and veining throughout'. This might represent the brick clay, exposed in Mr Bond's brickyard; but this stratum was recorded by Arkell (1947) as occurring from 20-80 ft below the limestone. There are many inconsistencies and gaps in our knowledge concerning the strata below the limestone and detailed logging of these would be a worthwhile future project. I am very grateful to English China Clays for allowing me to consult an
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. BARTONIAN MAMMALS OF HAMPSHIRE BASIN 211 recorded, described as 'almost white silty clay w. brown yellow mottle and veining throughout'. This might represent the brick clay, exposed in Mr Bond's brickyard; but this stratum was recorded by Arkell (1947) as occurring from 20-80 ft below the limestone. There are many inconsistencies and gaps in our knowledge concerning the strata below the limestone and detailed logging of these would be a worthwhile future project. I am very grateful to English China Clays for allowing me to consult and reproduce data from their borehole log of Creech- barrow. The Superficial Deposits. Bed A is very variable in thickness and probably resulted from weathering of the limestone, perhaps once naturally exposed at the surface. Hudleston (1902a: 250) surmised that a limestone needle was once exposed at the summit of the hill and later artificially levelled to produce limestone rubble (= bed A herein). If so, then the fine sandy soil of bed B was the natural soil formed subsequent to the building of a 'lodge' of which only the foundations now remain. This homogeneous horizon is devoid of human debris and wedges out rapidly westwards and summitwards in Hole 6. Hudleston (1902a: 253) later contradicted his own surmise when he suggested rapid disintegration of the limestone 'when exposed to the atmosphere' as the only explanation for absence of fragments on the flanks of the hill and its lack of use as a building stone. It seems more likely, therefore, that bed B was the natural soil formed before human occupation. Bed C was found to contain fragments of limestone, pottery, glass and roofing 'slate' (composed of Purbeck limestone) and a human phalangeal bone, as well as numerous black (? burnt) patches. This could have formed during occupation and/ demolition of the 'lodge'. Bed D, the modern topsoil, has presumably developed since demo- lition, which, according to Hudleston (1902b),
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