190 SARSEN, BASALT AND OTHER BOULDERS IN ESSEX.
2' 6" x 1' 1"; a block of sandstone 2' ni" x 2' 2" x 51/2" ; and another
of soft yellowish sandstone 1' x 1 x 6", [t.]
By a cottage to the north of the above are two subangular blocks of
Herts-conglomerate, the larger being 2' 41/2" x 1' 6" x 9". [t.]
In the front yard of Newhouse farm, is a weathered block of soft white
sandstone (3' 6" x 2' 7" x 1' 1".) [t.]
Cripsey Brook.—Lying across the bed of the brook, 1/4 mile west of Weald
Bridge at about 120' O.D., is a large flat table of Herts-conglomerate
9' 31/2" x 7' 21/2" x l' 8". This seems to be the largest Essex boulder. By
the roadside 100 yards north of Weald Bridge is a smaller conglomerate
boulder (1' 9" x 1' 61/2" x 10"), [t.]
Moreton.—There is a water-worn block of yellow quartzose sandstone
2' 9" x 2' x 11/2" exposed, and outside the 'White Hart' a water-worn
sarsen 3' x 2'2" x 1'. [t.]
High Ongar.—At Wants' Farm is a small basalt boulder [c.] At
"Witherspoons," four miles east of Ongar, Sarsens (2' x 1' 6"), Herts-
conglomerate 9" x 9", and rough quartz blocks (1' x 1') were seen [s.]
Sarsens also occur at Norton Mandeville by Norton Heath [c.] Between
Ongar and Moreton by a farmhouse about 13/4 miles from Ongar are a
sarsen and a Herts-conglomerate boulder. [s.]
Blackmore.—By the roadside at Fingrith Hall is a hard sarsen [c.],
and at the village green is a boulder of hard white sandstone with its
surface worn into hollows 2' 41/2" x l' 51/2" x 1' [s. and T.]. Small boulders
of a red decomposed igneous rock, and of hornblendic granite also occur
on the green. [c.] Between Blackmore and Writtle no boulders were
seen. [c.]
Fyfield.—In the churchyard is a sarsen and by the roadside a sarsen,
Herts-conglomerate etc., occur. [c.]
Willingale.—In the brook close to Terrell's Hall is a wedge-shaped
sarsen 5' x 3' 8" x 1', and a Septaria 1' 6". In a pit close by Warden's
Hall, a triangular sarsen 2" 9" x 2' x 1' 3" was seen in situ. In the farm-
yard at Warden's Hall are three sarsens [c.] At the corner of a lane
opposite the "Maltsters' Arms" is a white sandstone boulder 3' 2" x l' 91/2"
x 1' (exposed), [t.]
About the village were seen a hard white sarsen and a boulder of green
igneous rock (ash.)
Shellow Bowels.—By the roadside is a hard sandstone (or quartzite)
block 2' x 1' 2" x 101/2". [t.] In the farmyard at Shellow Cross Farm
the following boulders were observed:—Hard-basalt, two sarsen and
micaceous sandstone. [c.]
High Laver.—By the roadside, close to the church, is a waterworn
block of yellow sandstone (3' x 2' 2" x 1'). [T.]
Beauchamp Roding.—In the churchyard is a large flat triangular sar-
sen with a layer of flint pebbles (5' 3" x 4' 3" x 1'). Its surface is mammi-
lated. [t.]
Leaden Boding.—Outside the "King William the Fourth" Inn is an
cuboidal block of conglomerate much weathered (2' 6'' x 1' 6" x 1' 2")