HOLOCENE.
17
"moorlog" or peat dredged from the edges of the Dogger
Bank, with a report on the plant remains by C. and E. M.
Reid. 124
Orwell (J. E. Taylor, E.N., iv., 1890, pp. 90-172). The bed
of this estuary is occupied by peat 9 feet thick, resting upon
marl with freshwater shells. 125
Foulness, recent marine deposits (W. H. Dalton, E.N., iii.,
1889, pp. 239-243; E.N., xv., 1908, pp. 118-125). The second
paper gives well sections, one of which seems to show as
much as 75 feet of alluvial deposit. Also E.N., xv., 1909,
pp. 274-276. 126
Silting of Navigation Channels off the Essex Coast (E.N., xi., 1900,
p. 271). 127
Subsidence of Eastern England (W. H. Dalton, E.N., xvi., 1909,
pp. 96-100, with remarks by H.Laver and S. H. Warren).
The evidence for a comparatively modern subsidence rests
mainly upon the foundations of buildings being observed
upon the tidal flats. This does not seem to me satis-
factory evidence, because foundations are originally below
the living surface, and when the area becomes invaded by
the sea, they are often carried still lower by sliding
[122 ; there are also further remarks on this subject
under 328] 128
Encroachment of the Sea (P. Clark, E.N., x., 1898, pp. 355-359).
Pewit Island (only reclaimed 30 years before) was swamped,
and the farm house rendered uninhabitable, by the great
tide of 29 November 1897. [The house still stands, and is
surrounded by the tides. If the situation had been more
exposed to the open coast, its foundations, well, cess-pool,
etc., might have already furnished apparent evidence of
subsidence.] Further reports of the devastation of this
tide are to be found in the same, and the succeeding,
volume. 129
b. Inland Sites.
Barking (A. S. Kennard, E.N., xi., 1900, p. 290). Mollusca
from Alluvium of Roding. 130
Forest Gate (W. Crouch, E.N., iv., 1890, p. 17). Polished
axe of similar type to 134 in Alluvium at Earlham Grove. 131
Canning Town (A. S. Kennard and B. B. Woodward, E.N.,
xiii., 1903, pp. 77-79). A section of the usual character
with list of mollusca [20]. 132
Hackney Wick (A. Wrigley, E.N., xviii., 1915, pp. 31 ; 74).
Socketed bronze spear-head, found near the top of the
gravel, under the Marsh clay. 133