Meanings
- uncountableA type of clay sometimes found in marshes.
Even in such soft material as marsh clay, or what engineers call “bungham,” there is no danger of the hole collapsing.
1928, Transactions of the Society of Engineers, page 2403 more examples
A typical borehole starting at 9 ft. below the level of Grosvenor Road showed the presence of 4 ft. of brick rubble, 1 ft. 6 in. of bungham, 3 ft. 3 in. of peat, 1 ft. each of green clay and green sand […]
1930 November, Concrete and Constructional Engineering, volume 25These are the so-called bungham clays and are characterised by broad, shallow depressions 6in. - 12in. deep, known as crabholes, and which fill with water in winter.
1937, Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, page 345Other difficulties which had to be overcome at the time included the "treacherous" soil known as bungham, which Hutton wrote "needed only the briefest spell of rain to convert it into a liquid mud", making the construction of the dock a risky endeavour for those involved.
2020 December 19, Ryan O'Neill, “The rise and fall of Newport's once-thriving docks”, in Wales Online
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