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SECTION XI. 
Section at Stroud Hill from Mr E. Witchell’s “ Geology of Stroud,” facing 
page 5. 
ft. ins 
A 1—Blue marly clay, Fuller’s Earth one He Soc eta abes A, 
B? 2—Upper bed of Inferior Oolite, White Freestone ... ae 3 (OO 
C 38—Clypeus grit, Terebratula globata, Clypeus Plottii ... 8 0 
4— Three beds hard brown grit ... 4 6 
5—Upper Coral bed Nee ‘ia ae ne vhs 3 0 
D 6—Upper Trigonia grit... ae ee 5 Sad By, 6 0 
‘F 7—Gryphite grit ... sa ae see ae Bie caoekan nO 
I 8—Upper Freestone soc “ck nor Re a cone eae) 
J 9—Oolite Marl 6 0 
By these sections we can see that we are connected with 
sections III. IV. by the presence of the Gryphewa sublobata 
in section VI., and again by the presence of the Bored Bed 
underneath the Trigonia grit. The beds containing the 
Gryphza are in sections 3, somewhat compact masses of 
Limestone containing few fossils. I have obtained specimens 
of the Gryphea from all the localities at which it is men- 
tioned, and some of these specimens were exhibited at the 
Cotteswold Club Meeting, and identified as the same shell 
which marks the horizon at Leckhampton Hill, and many other 
places. In that case there can be no doubt that the Freestone 
which we see above the bed with the Gryphea in section VL, 
which is there 12 feet thick, and in section TX, is exposed to 
_ the depth of 14 feet, is a Freestone that cannot be identified 
with the Upper Freestone of Leckhampton, or with any other 
Freestone of the Cotteswold area. I therefore propose to call 
it the Notgrove Freestone to distinguish it. The representatives 
of this Freestone we find in section IV. bed 4, as 7 feet of a 
hard kind of limestone. In section III. we find it represented 
by three bands of stone two feet thick, and in section II. we 
cannot exactly trace any representative, so that it evidently 
undergoes considerable alteration eastwards, while to the west 
- we find an increase in the section IX. On the top of this 
Freestone we have a more or less separated bed, bored in all 
directions, generally very hard, with its top covered with 
numerous flat oysters, and much pitted and scooped out. As 
