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Yorston, Dygast Stn.
Yotin & Lorinm Sand Supply &
Limestone Quarry, just below the
Glass sand quarry.
Present top of quarry.
3 ft 2 inl,
5 ft massive grey compact l. with
residual clay above & below.
F 2 ft 6 in massive grey fine gr. coarsed l.
D 5 ft 9 in thin bedded nodular stratified kidney
C 6 in Fireclay dark coarse angular l. pieces,
in continuity.
7 ft 9 in Top brecciated & mottled, Massive light
grey clayey fine compact l., with fine brick
base to lower & coarsely brecciated in place,
5 ft Massive flinty grey s & or lithographic l.
15 ft 3 in Flints helded by grey l.
4 ft 3 in. Thin bedded blue bin-
pure linestones (brast and
[illegible] 20% lime).
Base of quarry, Sward to be
within 1 ft 9 Dygan freestone.
The fire clay is wanting here,
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Yr2.
& end of line between Rundlean and
Fleming Cr. On gravel from St Paul's Yard
to Plumstead Foundry,
B nemavista lane.
1 ft 6 in covered.
13 ft 6 in Smutty black shale
3 ft 6 in covered.
18 ft 6in Because of Berne section top not exp.
155 ft 6 in Clay & black shale
49 ft 6 in. Wyden red ochre.
The Bedford Bwaa section is
indicated only by thin shale bands
at my fragments in the soil.
The West Union is absent. Cause
that between blue shale and
Clay ochred is well exposed.