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A recent Temporary Section through
Pleistocene Deposits at Ilford
By W. D. IAN ROLFE
with contributions on the non-marine Mollusca by
M. P. KERNEY and the late A. G. DAVIS
Read 30th November, 1957.
INTRODUCTION
It is many years since the classic sections through the Taplow
Terrace gravels and brickearths at Ilford were last seen. A
recent section nearly 1,000 feet in length, afforded by the
cutting of a trench for a six-foot soil sewer running North-
South across the area of the brickearths was hence of some
importance.
The line of the section ran from Green Lane in the south
(Grid ref. 51/447865) to the Ilford High Road in the north
(446868). Its southern end lay a quarter of a mile to the east
of the Uphall site. (435862), and the trench extended north-
wards to within a few hundred yards of the former brickyards
near the High Road (440871).
DESCRIPTION OF THE DEPOSITS.
Three successions from the almost continuous section afforded
by the trench are given below :
I. Gordon Road, South of Green Lane.
A.O.D. Thickness Lithology
35'
10' Yellowish-brown plastic brickearth, with
nodules of race up to 2" in diameter.
25'
3' White and yellow sands, occasionally
well stratified, and containing many
shells of Corbicula fluminalis. Bones
common at this horizon.
22'
1' Ferruginous sandy gravel; typical river
gravel.