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THE SILURIAN ROCKS OF HAGLEY PARK. 



BY THE LATE HUGH STRICKLAND, ESQ., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



The little village of Hagley, a hamlet of the parish of Lugwardine, is 

 situated on the flat summit of a hill which falls away from it in every direction. 

 The high road from Hereford to Ledbury passes over the hill in its longest axis, 

 and the distance from the valley of the river Lug to that of the Froome is about 

 a mile and a half. This hill has been termed the "The Hagley Dome." It is 

 formed by an upcast of Silurian rocks, the existence of which had escaped the 

 careful researches of the officers of the Geological survey of Great Britain. The 

 discovery of the nature of its formation is due to the late M. J. Scobie, Esq., of 

 Hereford, the first honoray secretary of the Woolbope Club. A quarry had been 

 opened in Hagley Park, two or three hundred yards west of the house, and in 

 this quarry Mr. Scobie detected the junction beds of the Old Red Sandstone and 

 of the Upper Ludlow Rock. Ho invited the late Mr. Strickland to come and 

 exan.ine the quarry. Mr. Strickland was extremely interestid by the discovery, 

 and with the aid of Mr. Scobie and his fossils, he drew up the following account 

 for the Journal of the Geological Society. 



The area of Silurian Rocks here exposed on the surface consists of yellowish 

 sandstones referable to the " Downton Sandstones " of Sir Roderick Murchison. 

 It rests on grey micaceous schists, and dips on all sides beneath the sandstones 

 and mails of the Old Red series. These rocks seem to form a poition of a very 

 flattened dome, and the quarry which extends about seventy yards from N."\V. to 

 S. E. , cuts through this dome on its south-western slope. Such, at least, is the 

 conclusion drawn from the dip of the beds, which at the north end of the quarry 

 is about 10° N."W. by W. ; at the middle of the quarry, 5° "W.N.'W. ; about 

 twenty yards further south, 8° W.S.W. ; and at the southern extremity 7° 

 S.S.W. 



