The Barnstable series consists of very deep, well drained soils formed in loamy glacial till over loose, sandy outwash. They are on moraines. Slope ranges from 0 to 35 percent.
Permeability is moderately rapidly in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum.
Barnstable sandy loam in a wooded area. 41 degrees 44 minutes 22 seconds N., long. 70 degrees 30 minutes 17 seconds W., NAD 27. Thickness of solum ranges from 18 to 25 inches and corresponds closely to the depth to outwash. Rock fragment content consists of 5 to 20 percent gravel and 0 to 5 percent cobbles in the solum.