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We found Gardinias, Pentacrinites, Oolite, Slate, and Chert. 

 The Gravel is small at the bottom, with large blocks of Blue 

 Lias Clay. Beds dip 5°, and there is a fault in the pit. The 

 two beds, 8 and 4 feet thick respectively, I consider to be 

 Boulder Clay. 



Here, as at Welcombe, and near the New Inn on the 

 Ridgeway, the Quartzose Sand is intermediate between a bed 

 of Clay and Gravel, the latter being the lower. 



On either side of the river Stour the N.D. is largely developed, 

 extending to Shipston where it attains an elevation of 212 feet, 

 and at Alderminster, about half-way between Stratford and 

 Shipston, Mammalian Eemains occur. 



Two and a half miles distant from Shipston, at Wilmington, 

 at a height of 272 feet, is a pit of 8 feet of gravel, covered with 

 14 foot of soil, in which there are Quartzose Pebbles, Millstone 

 Grit, Flints, Chalk, with a little Oolite and Marlstone, some of 

 the Gravel is small (much water-worn) and in it are seams of 

 Red Quartzose Sand. 



At Honington Hill, 362 feet above the sea, the Gravel is close 

 to the surface, for the first 3 feet it is very coarse, resting 

 upon 7 feet of finer description, some of it much reduced by 

 attrition, in which, however, large pebbles are interspersed, 

 i.e. N.D. with Flints. The surface is table-land, but the Gravel 

 is thickest just where the ground begins to slope. 



Ascending the hill towards the village of Brailes, I found a 

 few scattered N.D. Pebbles at an elevation of 422 feefc, but after 

 leaving the main road could discover no further trace of them 

 until reaching the summit, 607 feet high, where just beyond the 

 clump of trees, where the ground is flat, and composed of Stones- 

 field slate, I again met with them. 



From Cherrington to Little Woolford, at a point where the 

 road branches out to Weston Park Farm, is a large, angular, 

 irregular-shaped boulder of Millstone Grit, weighing, as far as 

 I could judge, 2 cwt. 



In Little Woolford fields, near Pepperwell buildings, are two 

 important sections of Gravel, in the same ground. 



