68 Beology of the Shore of the Severn, 



TKe strata in which the organic remains, &c., are respec- 

 tively found, are, in the order of their position^ 



1st, AUuvium. 



2d, Diluvial Gravel. 



3d, Blue Lias. 



Upon reference to the different histories of the County of 

 Gloucester, I find no further account of any fossil organic re- 

 mains being then known to have been found in the parish of 

 Awre, than that of the remains of the pentacrinite, in the no- 

 tice of the point k, in the accompanying drawing, where Sir R. 

 Atkyns informs us *' pentagonal stones are found," (Atkyns's 

 History of Glou., p. 123, fol.) Bigland, speaking of the 

 same point on the shore, observes (p. 102), '* Pentagonal 

 stones, which, when immersed in vinegar, seem to have mo- 

 tion, are found on this strand." Rudder, also,, in his history, 

 (p. 248,) notices the existence of the pentacrinite in the same 

 locality. 



The parish of Awre, in that part of it which is bounded by 

 the Severn, commences about 150 yards above the point b at 

 a. From a to 6 the shore is muddy and the bank low, ex- 

 posing about half a foot of clay beneath the vegetable mould. 

 From 6 to c is a cliff of red marl, varying in height from about 

 forty to seventy feet, in some parts traversed by veins of 

 -a greyish blue, the shore being covered with fragments of the 

 same, washed down by the action of the tide. In the clay, 

 which prevails from c to d, 1 found the teeth of deer, one 

 about three and the other two feet below the surface ; and in 

 the interval between the places where these teeth were dug up, 

 I discovered, at the depth of nine feet, a sort of iron shovel, 

 much corroded, accompanied by fragments of red pottery and 

 carbonized wood*. From the action of the tide below high- 

 water mark, several feet beneath the stratum of clay in which 

 the above-mentioned teeth were found, a vast collection of 

 wood and hazel-nuts is brought to light — the remains, pro- 

 bably, of trees which once grew near the spot where they now 

 lie. The incursion of the tide which first deposited them, 

 and probably at no very remote period, is still in course of 



* See Quarterly Journal of Science, &c., No, XL, p. 413. 



