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and Bredon hills we behold old sea-beds piled one above 

 another, and filled with the remains of animals which lived in 

 the Jurassic seas, and indeed every quarry among these ancient 

 deposits affords relics of the characteristic animals of the Oolitic 

 and Liassic periods. The ridges of Corsewood Hill and Hasfield 

 wood, to the south-east, are capped with the lowest strata of 

 the Liassic rocks, and below them lie the RhcBtic beds of the 

 Geologist, which, as you are aware, constitute the summit of 

 the New Eed Sandstone or Triassic series. The wooded hill of 

 Berrow, just in front, is an outlier of upper Keuper Marls, 

 capped by the lowest Lias and Rhoetic beds, and an important 

 outlier it is, for it testifies of the prolongation of these beds of 

 the Liassic and Ehoetic seas to within two miles of the Malvern 

 range, where they no doubt once formed a shore boundary to 

 the Ehoetic and Liassic waters. The triple division of the 

 upper Keuper rocks is well marked out in the country east of 

 Redmarley. The uppermost Keuper Marls rest immediately 

 below the Rhoetic fossiliferous strata and the bone bed, and 

 form the principal part of those low hiUs you see rising above 

 the flat plain east of Redmarley, such as Sarnhill, Corsewood 

 Hill, Hasfield Woods, and Berrow Hill. Below these upper 

 Keuper Marls you may see the upper Keuper Sandstone of 

 Eldersfield, Staunton and Pendock forming low escarpments 

 and ridges above the lower Keuper Marls, which are for the 

 most part cut out into narrow vales with the upper Keuper Sand- 

 stone on their crests. These lower Marls are the equivalents of 

 the salt-bearing beds of Cheshire and Droitwich, and below 

 them again are the lower Keuper Sandstones of the Geological 

 Surveyors, and which constitute the rock on which is built the 

 Church of Redmarley, and the residence of Lady Roberts — 

 Hazeldine. These lower Keuper rocks, with the Bromesberrow 

 Bunter beds, form the Ryeland district of Redmarley D'Abitot, 

 Bromesberrow, Pauntley, Oxenhall, Newent and Taynton. Near 

 Newent they overlap the faulted coal measure rocks, which 

 stand as it were on edge between them and the Old Red Sand- 

 stone of Hill House Grove, and Dymock country ; the lower 

 Keupers and Bunter beds having been deposited uncomformably 



