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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
"The 'Clay Pit' marked on the Ordnance map, between Feering and
Inworth, is a brickyard, worked in Boulder Clay (the upper part whitish, the
lower dark blue) to a depth of at least 30 feet. It is then not bottomed, and
therefore the base must be some depth below the river, and the clay is probably
continuous across the valley to Kelvedon, as at Witham, though overlaid by-
Valley Gravel in both cases. Between Feering and Witham, indeed, the
Boulder Clay sinks down, cutting out the underlying Glacial Gravel, and resting
on the London Clay."
Beyond this cutting, small drains beside the line showed Boulder Clay at the
surface as far southward as a point due west of Inworth Church. Then south-
west of the Rectory, at the south-eastern corner of a field the eastern hedge of
which ranges close to, but west of, the railway, a Sarsen Stone was seen. And
from this point, to that at which the Light Railway crosses the road from
Inworth Grange and Windmill Hill to Tiptree, London Clay, with irregular
cappings of gravel, appeared. The party did not proceed beyond the road just
mentioned.
The Loudon Clay near the north-western corner of Perry Wood showed
Septaria nodules with very high and irregular dips in a horizontal space of about
25 yards, suggesting the presence of one or more faults. As Mr. W. Whitaker
remarked, the position of this spot is worth noting, as it may possibly turn out to
be on the line of the Wickham Bishop or some other important fault. In Essex
the absence of hard beds, and the very large proportion of the country which is
covered by superficial deposits, make the detection of the direction taken by lines
of fault a work of exceptional difficulty.
Of the gravel patches capping the London Clay hereabouts, the only one
deserving special mention was seen between New Barn westward and Hill Farm
eastward of the line It was much coarser than the other patches, and contained
many large flints.
The party returned to Kelvedon by the road from Tiptree past Perry's Wood
and Inworth Church ; and after tea at the "Sun Inn," on Feering Hill, caught
the 7.35 p.m. train for Liverpool Street.
" More recent visits to this railway have shown me that by far the most
interesting portion of it, from a geological point of view, is that between Tiptree
and Kelvedon, noticed above. On descending from the Tiptree Heath plateau
to Tolleshunt Knights and Tolleshunt D'Arcy, and thence eastward, nothing
appears in the slight cuttings but London Clay, capped here and there by irregular
deposits of gravel and sand.—T.V.H."
THE ANNUAL "FUNGUS FORAY."
Saturday, October 24TH, 1903.
The Fungus Foray was held on this day at the headquarters of so many
former meetings of the kind—the "King's Oak" Inn, High Beach, Epping
Forest.
The Botanical Conductors were Dr. M. C. Cooke, Mr. George Massee, F.L.S.,
and Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S.
The collecting parties were two—one starting about noon from the head-
quarters, and exploring Honey Lane Quarters and the western sides of the Forest,
and the second from Loughton, visiting the ground by the Loughton Camp and
Monks Woods.