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Upon the hill side, immediately above Cutting No. 1, a quarry 
was opened in order to obtain stone for building purposes, and 
the excavations here disclosed strata belonging to the Lower Lias, 
there being some 20ft. of limestone beds alternating with slaty 
clay and marl. The upper beds consist of thin layers of lime- 
stone and clay for about 5ft., the remaining 15ft. being thick beds 
of Argillaceous Limestone, interstratified with beds of Slaty Marl. 
The strata dip in a northerly direction at a slight angle, and belong 
to the group of beds worked for Blue Lias lime at Dunball. 
The fossils found in this quarry were numerous, Pecten and Limw. 
being the most common, with also Pleuromya Crowcombeia. There- 
was, however, an absence, as far as the Writer’s knowledge goes, 
of Ammonites and Gryphex, which make their appearance in. 
the same hill a short distance further east. 
Proceeding along the line, a short bank immediately succeeds. 
the marl cutting, and runs parallel to the slope of the hill, Then 
we enter the principal cutting, which practically works its way 
through to the northern slopes of the Polden Hills. The entrance 
occurs directly north of King’s Farm, and continues for some 
distance in rubble and clay, 
The strata disclosed belong to the Lower Lias, dipping north- 
ward at an angle of about 15 degrees. They consist of limestones 
alternating with clays and shales, and are faulted in three places. 
After the third fault they present a synclinal fold, and the dip 
‘continues southward with an angle again of 15 degrees. The 
beds then follow on with great regularity until terminated by an 
oblique fault upon the north side of the Glastonbury Road. The 
main mass of these beds is formed of clays and shales, with bands. 
of limestone every four or five feet. The lie of the strata is 
fairly horizontal in the earlier part of the cutting, but further on, 
_ past the Glastonbury Road, the dip is to the east. The thickness 
_ of the beds laid bare is considerable ; Mr. Horace B. Woodward 
estimated this to be about 180ft. from the synclinal curve to where 
the fault abruptly ends the succession. Further on there are 
