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considerable signs of disturbance, the shales being highly tilted 
in places, but the beds are again repeated in the shape of 
shales and clays. The disturbance makes it difficult to estimate 
the whole depth of strata exposed, or the depth gained by 
upthrow at the last fault. That it is an upthrow there can be 
little doubt, when it is considered that further on we come to the 
Rhetic Beds at the base of the cutting. 
Mr. Woodward’s notes upon this cutting are the following :— 
“ Northward of the third fault the beds present an undulating 
synclinal fold, and thence outcrop for some distance with regularity, 
‘dipping soutward at an angle of about 15 degrees.” 
“ Clays and shales continue to form the main mass of the Lias, 
but they contain bands of limestone mostly hard and argillaceous, 
sometimes nodular, sometimes even-bedded about every three to 
five feet. A rough estimate of the beds here exposed gave a 
thickness of 180 feet.” 
Mr. Woodward considers that the strata represent in part the 
“ Bucklandi Beds,” but at about 115ft. Ostrea liassica is abundant, 
so that the lower beds, including those exposed in the quarry 
‘before mentioned, may be considered to belong to the ‘“ Planorbis 
Beds.” Fossils throughout this section were very scarce. South- 
‘ward of the Glastonbury Road impressions of large forms of 
Ammonites Bucklandi were met with in the shales and limestones. 
Occasionally a Gryphea and several specimens of Lima gigantea 
and Rhynchonella variabilis were also found. The ammonites, 
unfortunately, were poor specimens. Northward of the Glaston- 
bury Road no ammonites, and but few examples of lima, 
occurred. 
Before reaching the Cossington Road on the south side, lime- 
stones again appear, much finer in quality than those hitherto 
met with, and still belonging to the Lower Lias. After running 
fairly horizontally for a short distance, they turn upward, being 
thus inclined to the south at angles of from 10 to 15 degrees. 
The layers of clay, shale and limestone continue to follow one 
