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The rendezvous was at the Dudbridge Station on the Nails- 
worth branch of the Midland Railway, where well-appointed 
breaks were in waiting to convey the party. The first halt was 
made at Cainscross, to examine the gravel-pits there, which 
have at different times yielded teeth and bones of the mammoth. 
The exposed section shows a river-laid gravel, about 25 feet 
thick, containing land-shells. These gravels once extended 
from the Cotteswold hills to the Severn; they have since been 
eroded out of the main valleys, but on the flanks of the hills, 
and here and there in retired bays and back-waters, the beds 
of gravel remain to tell the tale of denudation of which they 
are the remaining evidences. At the point in question the 
lines of stratification show plainly that the gravels are the 
result of very slow deposition in shallow water. 
At no great distance lies Moor Hall, an Elizabethan gabled 
manor-house, of the true Cotteswold type. But little is 
known of this mansion beyond the fact that in the 17th 
century it belonged to a family of the name of Fowter. There 
is a tradition that it was erected by a son of Sir Toomas Morg, 
the Chancellor of Henry VIII. There is but little note-worthy 
respecting it beyond the date, 1582, and an upper chamber 
panelled in oak. It is now a farm house. 
The carriages left the valley, and proceeded by a long and 
toilsome ascent to climb the hill to a point known as Randwick 
Ash, noted as commanding one of the most extensive prospects 
in the entire range of the Cotteswolds, to admire which a short 
halt was made. The party then, under the guidance of Mr 
WircHeELL, proceeded to examine a quarry on the north side of 
the hill, which displays to view a fine exposure of the basement 
beds of the Inferior Oolite. These are the beds to which Mr 
Wircnett made reference in his Paper read before the Club in 
the previous January. The section from the top downwards 
reads thus :— 
Brown Beds ibe ak ... 9 feet 
Pisolite ... é AS erie Bar| 
Underlying Freestones ... +e EONS 
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