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Sections, namely, a white Oolitic Limestone, except the upper 
ten feet, which become more ferruginous. Sections of these 
beds may be seen in the quarries 4,5 and 6. These quarries 
have been worked for many years, and Lycett minutely describes 
one of them (now numbers 4 and 5) in the “Geology of the 
Cotteswold Hills.” He says, (p. 41)— 
“ The lower quarry exhibits the lower portion of the Freestone group, to 
the thickness of about 45 feet, the summit of the Section exposing a band of 
Marl. The whole face of the quarry beneath the Marl band exhibits a series 
of beds of stone, without any division lines of softer material, thick bedded 
towards the lower part with fine shelly detritus and imperfect shells, mingled 
with spines of Echinoderms, crystalline carbonate of lime, and sandy drift, 
constituting a coarse hard rock, variable in its mineral character, and conse- 
quently of little commercial value. The Marly band at the summit of the 
Section has produced a large number of fine Terebratula plicata, which is its 
sole fossil.” 
It will be noticed that Lycett regarded these beds as part 
of the Freestone series, capped by a band of Marl; but as this 
Marl and three feet of Pisolitic Limestone beneath it are now 
known to be “ Pea Grit,” it follows that the underlying beds 
are the Lower Limestones. The lithological description of the 
beds by Lycett is accurate, but their thickness can only be 
approximately ascertained. The sands are covered up, and the 
only exposure of the brown sandy Limestone which rests upon 
the Cephalopoda bed is in an old working at the bottom of the 
unenclosed part of the hill; but the beds have evidently slipped 
from their original position, so that they are useless for pur- 
poses of measurement. The thickness of the whole of the 
Inferior Oolite has however been ascertained, by taking the 
altitude of the hill above the Cephalopoda bed, which is exposed 
in the adjacent Pen wood, south-west of the hill. This gives 
about 120 feet, but as the beds thin out in that direction, the 
thickness at the north end is probably about 150 feet. 
There is much tumbled Oolite on the slope of the hill, and 
it is difficult to ascertain the thickness of the beds, or even to 
be quite certain of their position unless caution is exercised. 
Thus in the old disused quarry, (No. 3) near the enclosed land, 
the whole of the upper beds, viz., the Ragstones, Upper 
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