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III.—On the Occurrence of Grey-Wethers at Grays, Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The occurrence of “Sarsen-stones,” or blocks of so-called Druid sandstone, has not, I believe, been generally noticed in this locality, and their position may be of interest to some of your readers, more especially as the extensive working both for Brick-earth and Chalk have obliterated many of the interesting sections for which the pits were celebrated. Grays is well known both for its fine chalk-pits and extensive brick-earth deposits, the latter containing numerous remians of fossil mammalia, associated with land and fresh water mollusca. The sarsen-stones (of which some may be still seen lying about the large chalk-pit), I have noticed during the progress of the workings as occurring on the upper surface of a bed of disturbed chalk, above the solid chalk, and covered by a blackish or carbonaceous clay containing freshwater shells.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1867

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References

1 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1836, p. 261Google Scholar; 1838, p. 539.Google Scholar