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described in our Proceedings by Professor Harker and Mr 
Buckman. 
It may safely be assumed that the formation at the mouth 
of the tunnel is the upper part of the Fuller’s Earth; the 
rubbly beds which overlie would then be Stonesfield Slate. 
Then succeeds a bed, much broken up, of a sandy nature, and 
in the cutting there is a slight anti-clinal, the beds dipping on 
either side away from each other, and this continues more or 
less until a short distance into the long cutting. Afterwards 
the Great Oolite comes in, but the question is do the beds 
below belong to that formation or the Stonesfield Slate? This 
leaves an interesting piece of Geology to work out. 
The Members then drove to Cirencester, and dined at the 
King’s Head Hotel. 
NEWLAND AND ST. BRIAVELS 
The fourth and last meeting was held on September 17th, 
and it attracted the large number of 30 members, who travelled 
by the Great Western Railway to Lydney, where a special train 
was in readiness to convey them over the Severn and Wye line 
to Coleford. In driving to Clearwell Meend a rude roadside 
cross was examined, of the history of which little is known, 
but it has suffered from some jovial Foresters having got the 
shaft out of it in the hope of finding gold. 
Thence to Clearwell to see the “‘ Scowles””—a name given 
in the Forest to hollows and fissures, where iron ore was worked 
during the Roman occupation, if not at an earlier date. 
Mr W. H. Fryer, who has considerable knowledge of the 
Forest, and experience in mining, gave the following explana- 
tion :— 
“The ore occurs in crystalline limestone, belonging to the 
upper part of the mountain limestone. The beds vary 
from 10 to 20 yards in thickness, and are locally called 
the ‘crease’ or vein. The ore is found in chambers, 
termed ‘churns.’ They are very irregular in shape 
and extent, often widening into caverns, and narrowing 
to very small strings or ‘leads.’ ” 
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