Southerndown, Dunraven and Bridgend Beds. Read before the 
Cotteswold Club, Nov. 16th, 1884, by W. C. Lucy, F.G.S. 
In the Autumn of 1867 the Cotteswold Club met at 
Bridgend, and under the able guidance of our President, Dr 
Wricxt, Mr Erurriper, Mr Cuas. Moors and the Rev. W. S. 
Symonps spent two days in examining the sections of the 
district, in order to form an opinion of the position of the 
beds, which had been rather warmly contested by Messrs Moors, 
Tawney, Duncan, and Bristow; and the result of the investi- 
gation is recorded as follows, in the President’s able address 
for March 1868 (Volume IV, 1866-68.) 
“The Grey beds, forming the so-called Southerndown series, 
immediately underlie the Bucklandi beds, and are themselves 
an abnormal development of the zone of Ammonites angulatus, 
which fossil is found throughout, of all sizes from that of 
a crown piece to that of a small cart wheel. 
“At the base of these beds, immediately above the White 
Sutton-stone, was found Am. Johnstoni, the ribbed representa- 
tive of Am. planorbis, and probably marking the same horizon. 
The White Sutton beds were considered by a majority of those 
present to represent the White Lias, though Mr Moors insisted 
strongly on their true Liassic character, and was certain he had 
taken Am. angulatus in situ, out of these beds; but the most 
searching investigation failed, upon the present occasion, to 
establish that point.” 
In July, 1883, accompanied by Mr Tuos. Starrer and Mr 
R. F. Tomzs, we spent eight days in the district, making our ~ 
quarters first at Bridgend, and afterwards at Southerndown. — 
