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Evidently the cover of a tomb to one of the De Londres. Colonel 

 Turburvill having most hospitably invited the members to lunch, 

 the spare time was occupied in wandering through the grounds 

 and following the course of the ancient walls ; the curious 

 dovecot in the E. wall, the S.W. gateway, the kitchen 

 garden enclosed on three sides by the old ramparts and the N. 

 gateway were the chief objects of interest. The Secretary 

 likewise in company with Mr. Storrie took a few of the members 

 more especially interested in the subject to see a geological section 

 about a mile distant on the Brocastle road, an account of the 

 result of this visit is appended : — 



Brocastle Section. — In a paper recently read by Mr. Lucy before 

 the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, and published in their 

 Proceedings for 1884-1885 (p. 257), an attempt is there made 

 to revive Mr. Tawney's theory of the Ehsetic age of the Sutton 

 stone Conglomerate, and to show that Charles Moore was in 

 error in supposing it to be of Lower Lias age, and had mistaken 

 one bed for another. In his paper on Abnormal Secondary 

 Deposits (Quarterly Journal Geological Society, Vol xxiii., p. 521), a 

 section is there given at Brocastle, with a description of " a deposit 

 of Conglomerate" found there resting on the Mountaia Limestone 

 immediately under the soil, the Liassic character of which he 

 brought forward abundant evidence to prove. At p. 257 of Mr. Lucy's 

 paper — with a view of rebutting this evidence of the Liassic age of 

 the Conglomerate — a statement is made that " it was clear (to the 

 writer's mind) that it was merely a large mass of drift " — whatever 

 this may mean. It was then to ascertain the accuracy of this view 

 that the visit was made. About a mile from the Priory on the S. 

 road to Brocastle, just at the top of a slight rise, and nearly opposite a 

 road section on the right-hand, a gate on the left led into a field at 

 the top corner of which, close to the hedge bounding the road on the 

 S., Moore's section was found. There could not be any doubt of this, 

 as the Secretary had the original map used by that Geologist on which 

 the spot was marked. The quarry having long been disused was of 

 course much grown over ; but the E. side revealed the section sought 

 for. There immediately under the turf .were loose blocks of bluish 



