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an embankment over the Upper Lias we enter rather suddenly 
into this cutting, which is situated at Syreford. The beds dip 
somewhat towards the east, and in this way the following series 
of strata are presented to our view, the Freestone at the west 
end, and the Sandy beds at the east. 
SECTION VII. 
First Cutting East of Andoversford Station, by Syreford Farm, North side, 
Beds dipping East and South. Marked on the Ordnance Map as G. 4, 
Midford Sands. (Harford Sands and Upper Freestone.) 
ft. ins. 
1—Several bands of Sandy Rock with Sandy partings : Se 8 
2 —Yellowish sandy debris, occasionally hardening into coarse stone 2 
3—Band of Rock ‘ge Bae Fi ne 1 
4—Sticky, Yellowish Brown nnd acti es Pe is 3 
5—Bands of a rough decomposed Limestone, with Aa aac 3 
oo CO f SO 
6—-Coarse fissile kind of White Freestone, with White Oolite 
Grains. Lamellibranchiata, small Gasteropoda, etc., visible 10 0 
We are unable to trace the beds below the cutting, because 
they are hidden from view, but it would be interesting to know 
how they are connected with the Upper Lias just below, unless, 
as is most probable, there is here a considerable fault. 
By a bridge across the cutting runs the road from Shipton to 
Syreford, and a little below, the line crosses the road from Ando- 
versford to Rowel Gate, and with the Stow road on the south, and 
the Syreford farmhouse on the north, it is impossible to mistake 
the place where the railway cuts through. We observe that 
this is coloured in the map G. 4, or the same as the Supra-Liassic 
or Cotteswold Sands in other places, but the cutting shews 
nothing of the nature of these sands, and the presence of the 
rough Freestone bed at the bottom shews that this is a mistake, 
and that the most probable thing is that these sandy beds are 
the equivalent in time to the sandy beds which we have been 
examining by Notgrove Station and at Harford, and which 
Dr Wright has met with at Cleeve Hill. In that case the 
colouring of a certain portion of this part of the country should 
be altered from G. 4 Midford Sands, to G. 5 Inferior Oolite. 
Of course the officers of the Geological Survey had not the 
