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Alternations of Oolite, Flints and N.D. Gravel prevail to a 

 great extent round Ditchford, and even where there are Oolite 

 Gravel pits, the surface soil has generally in it N.D. When 

 draining on the Compton Scorpion side of Stretton-on-Foss, 

 Mr. Fletcher cut through a large mass of drifted comminuted 

 Chalk, of the depth of 10 feet, with very little Flint, but it did 

 not extend far. Near to Barton-on-the-Heath is a pit of 7 feet 

 of Quartzose Sand, and about half-a-mile from there on the old 

 road leading to Moreton, there is another pit of 12 feet of 

 Gravel, and some Quartzose Sand, with very large Flints, hke 

 those at Aston Magna, and pieces of hard Chalk of considerable 

 size. Greenstone, Millstone Grit, White Quartz, Permian, Lias, 

 and some Gryphites. 



In a perfectly flat field called "The Poor Lots," about 

 half-a-mile out of Moreton, on the road leading to the " Four- 

 shire Stone," there is a very large pit shewing Ift. 6in. of 

 sandy soil, with N.D. Pebbles, and 8 feet of drift, of which 

 at least one-third is composed of large Flints, and as will be 

 seen in the section, many of the Pebbles are vertical,* shewing 

 lateral pressure — one which I measured was 8 inches in length. 



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* Mr. BoTD Dawkins, in an article (in the Quarterly Journal of May, 1867) 

 " On Age of the Lower Brick Earths of the Thames Valley," in describing a 

 section at Uphall Pit, south side. No. 5, says, " There is one point deserving 

 attention in this bed ; the long axes of the Pebbles are in the main vertical, 

 instead of occupying the horizontal position of those which have been deposited 

 by water." He also states, "is proved beyond all doubt to be of glacial origin 

 — to have been carried down by the ice and deposited, on its melting, upon the 

 eroded top of fluviatile deposits below." 



