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On leaving the church, Mr CuristorHer Bowty, of Siddington 
House, invited the Members to partake of luncheon, which he 
had prepared for them under the cool shade of some umbrageous 
foliage, which all enjoyed, as it was both an unexpected and 
welcome treat. After luncheon the party drove on to South 
Cerney, to visit the chief object of the day’s excursion—the 
cutting made through beds of Kelloway Rock; and, certainly, 
the appearance which the beds presented was very remarkable. 
In the bottom were seen a number of large rounded stony 
masses, extending in length through two or three hundred 
yards. The ferruginous sand which had filled the spaces 
between the stony bosses had been removed, so that the 
rounded bosses stood out in bold relief in the line of the future 
railway, from which they had to be removed by blasting with 
gunpowder—so strange and unusual was the aspect presented 
by these rocks that the Secretary was instructed to have a 
photograph taken of the scene for the next volume of 
“Transactions” of the Club. An attentive examination of 
these masses showed that they were concretions of a very hard 
calcareo-siliceous material, which had formed around some 
organic substances, mostly an Ammonite or a cluster of small 
shells. The rocky bosses had been covered by an oyster bed, 
which was composed of numbers of Gryphea dilatata Sow, in a 
state of decomposition; and these fossils were in a stratified 
layer conformable to the rounded bosses of Kelloway Rock. 
A visit was next paid to the church of South Cerney, which ° 
contains some good Norman work in excellent preservation. 
In the churchyard is noticeable a stone altar tomb, with two 
recumbent female effigies upon it, much weathered and worn ; 
but, from the style of the head-dress, probably as old as the 
thirteenth century. Some wiseacres, mistaking the veils for 
wigs, have pronounced them to be judges, and not more than 
two centuries old ! 
The next point of interest was the deep cutting at Golden 
Farm, near Cirencester, in which the clays of the Forest 
Marble, capped by the Cornbrash, are finely exposed, the Forest 
Marble clay being almost barren, and the Cornbrash crowded 
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