FIELD EXCURSION TO CROMER, NORWICH, AND LOWESTOFT. JULY 9th–14th, 1903

Abstract

The special object of this excursion was to study, as far as might be possible during the short time allotted to it, the Glacial deposits of Norfolk, and their relation to those of the North of England.* Assembling the night before at Tucker’s Royal Hotel, Cromer, the excursionists took train to North Walsham on the morning of Thursday, July 9th, proceeding thence by carriage to Hasboro’ (Happisburgh), at the south-eastern termination of the cliff section. A pleasant walk of about eight miles along the beach, in delightful weather, which fortunately lasted during the whole visit, brought them to Trimingham; there a conveyance awaited them for North Walsham, from whence they returned to Cromer in the evening. The Pleistocene beds of East Anglia were divided by the late Searles V. Wood, Jun., into Lower, Middle, and Upper, those of the North Norfolk coast, the Cromer Till and the Contorted Drift, being placed by him in the first division. The Cromer Till, a bed of tough unstratified boulder-clay, of a dark blue colour, occurs at Hasboro’ at the base of the cliff, there about 30 feet in height. It was seen to contain abundantly fragments of grey flint and hard chalk from the Wolds of Lincolnshire or Yorkshire, some of the chalk being scratched or striated, together with many broken shells of recent species, especially Tellina balthica, Cardium. edule, and Cyprina islandica. Mr. Clement Reid has noted the much less frequent occurrence in the till of Red Chalk, Kimeridge Clay, and of...