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stone for the tower came from a quarry near Langridge and not 

 far from Battlefields. 



The Secretary having been asked for his view respecting 

 Mr. Woodward's "Note," stated that he was not prepared in 

 any way to criticise it. The brachiopod — PJiynconella cynocefhala 

 — which the writer said he had found in a small section on the 

 right hand side of the road, on the last rise before coming to the 

 main quarries, had subsequently been found there by himself on 

 two occasions, one being during the excursion of the Club to 

 Ham Hill last year ; and unless the identification of strata by 

 their fossil contents was an exploded theory, the discovery of 

 this peculiar shell (of which specimens were shown) certainly 

 fixed these beds as coming in somewhere at the base of the 

 Inferior Oolite series. Alluding to the chairman's remark about 

 the locality whence the Oolite for the Tower of Bitton Church 

 came from, he asked for some definite information as to the 

 quarries whence the Bath Abbey was hewn ; Mr. Chas. Moore 

 had informed him that the now disused quarry (called Shepherd's) 

 on the right of the Entry Hill road supplied the material. 

 Some sections on the black board illustrated the position of the 

 Ham Hill Stone as compared with the Inferior Oolite beds at 

 Leckhampton Hill ; and a block of the hard nodular bed at the 

 base of the workable "Gray beds" at Ham Hill, resting im- 

 mediately upon the Yellow " Brim Sands " was exhibited. The 

 Secretary reminding the members that a very large block of 

 this stone had just been brought to the surface when they visited 

 the quarries in September last ; Mr. Trask, the owner, who was 

 then present, stating that it was rather an uncommon thing to 

 see this bed exposed, and promising to send a specimen to the 

 Bath Museum. This he has since kindly done. 



