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development at a point about midway between the village and the 
head of the valley below Foston’s Ash, where the fine specimen 
now on the table, Chorisastrea rugosa, was found by Mr Foster 
of Birdlip. 
Leaving Sheepscombe, in the direction of Painswick, it 
occurs at Jack’s Green, and continuing along the road from 
there to Stroud, it is of considerable thickness on the side of 
Juniper Hill. When I first saw it, the bed exposed was 14 
feet thick, but now the greater part is removed for mending the 
roads, and wherever the Coral bed is met with, it is much used 
for that purpose, being harder and more durable than most of 
the other accessible beds of the Oolite. Crossing the deep valley 
to Scot’s Quarr Hill, it is found near the Gloucester House Inn, 
but not im situ, and is afterwards met with in a quarry by the 
- side of the road in the hill about two hundred yards from the 
Edge School House in going to Haresfield. 
From this quarry where it is extensively developed, there is 
no exposure until Huddingknoll Hill is reached, where in the 
plantation at the back of Mr Hutton’s house, it thins out and 
is only a few inches thick. It also occurs at Rodborough Hill, 
near Stroud. 
From a careful examination of the gravels at Frampton-on- 
Severn, where I have found many of the Corals, I think there 
is little doubt the bed once existed at, or about Frocester Hill, 
from which the gravels were mainly derived. I have also found 
them in the gravels at Brockworth and Barnwood, which appear 
to have come from Cooper’s Hill or near there. 
As the Pea-grit, much broken up, is met with midway 
between the Horsepools and Haresfield Hill, it is probable the 
Coral bed once existed above it, and has been denuded. 
The organic remains I have given in the various beds that 
T have shewn to exist at Crickley are very incomplete, as they 
are confined to some of the most typical forms, but those who 
wish to work them out afterwards will have a basis to go upon 
in the divisions I have made. 
So full of organic life are some of the beds, that to 
thoroughly examine them would require weeks of patient labour, 
as the fossils are so firmly embedded, in the matrix. 
