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Prom Shipton to Burford the N.D. is met with on Shiptoil 

 Downs in considerable quantity, attaining an elevation of 614 

 feet. At Burford and round Taynton it is well scattered over 

 the surface, and is to be seen along the ridge of high ground 

 as far as Stow-on-the-Wold. 



JSTear Bourton-on-the-Water, in a field adjoining the lane 

 leading into the Stow road is a pit containing fully 7 feet of 

 sub-angular Oohtic Gravel, in which the remains of an Elephant 

 were lately found, but of which I could only obtain a portion of 

 a tusk. The ground presents here, as elsewhere, the appearance 

 of a gentle rise with a plateau on the top, and the Gravel 

 evidently extends for some distance. 



Continuing along the lane after crossing the Stow road there 

 is another pit of Oolitic Gravel, with some Marlstone. It is 

 sub-angular, and 8 feet thick. 



On the high ground above Bourton is N.D., but from thence 

 to ISTorthleach it was only after a diligent search that I was 

 enabled to pick up some scattered pieces, and they were mostly 

 square, or slightly rounded. Millstone Grit ; and the same was 

 the case from Burford to Northleach. I may here remark 

 that in the Windrush Valley there is very little N.D. Gravel, 

 and after leaving the main road to Great Barrington, and 

 returning into it again at Windrush I found only one 

 Pebble. 



From Northleach, on the way to Cheltenham, a short distance 

 beyond Hampnett, is N.D. but very sparsely scattered. 



Taking Cirencester as the next starting point, at Siddington, 

 on the way from there to Minety Station, is a pit of 6 feet of 

 sub-angular Oolite, and at Wire Pool toll-bar, along the lane 

 leading out of the main-road to Somerford, there is another pit 

 of 5 feet of Oolite, and there is evidently a great quantity of 

 Gravel of like character in this locality. 



The first Chalk Flint I saw in this district was in a field after 

 passing Cave Wood House, before joining the cross-roads 

 leading to Minety Station. 



On the road which branches off to the Station, a short distance 

 from the seventh milestone from Cirencester, and just before 



