Notes on a Section of Stroud Hill, and the Upper Ragstone Beds 
of the Cotteswolds. By EH. Wrrcuett, F.G.S. 
In the Transactions of the Club are Sections of Cleeve and 
Leckhampton Hills, which are regarded as typical of the 
Inferior Oolite formation, but there is no complete Section of 
the middle part of the Cotteswolds, comprising the district 
around Stroud: the Section of Stroud Hill which accompanies 
this paper is intended to supply the deficiency. It includes, 
with the exception of the beds between the Upper Freestones 
and the Gryphite Grit which are absent, portions of the whole 
of the strata of the Cotteswold Hills from the Middle Lias to 
the Great Oolite inclusive. 
The higher beds of the Section, comprising the upper part of 
the Inferior Oolite and the Fuller’s Earth, do not appear to 
have attracted the notice of the Geologists of the Club so much 
as the other beds of the formation ; I have, therefore, made a 
few notes in reference to this part of the Section. 
The Ragstone beds appear, in the Cleeve and Leckhampton 
Sections, as terminating with the Upper Trigonia Grit; and 
Dr. Wricut, in his paper correlating the Inferior Oolite of 
Gloucestershire with that of the Cote d’Or, does not refer to 
any higher beds; but Dr. Lycrrr, in “The Geology of the 
Cotteswold Hills,’ describes a series of beds under the name of 
“Pholadomya Grit,” which, he says, are 15 feet thick, and 
overlie the Trigonia Grit. Two or more of these beds are 
described by Professor Huu, in his Memoir of the Geological 
Survey of East Gloucestershire, as the “‘ Clypeus Grit.” 
There are five distinct beds in the series, and their total 
thickness at Stroud Hill is about 20 feet. Their absence at 
Cleeve and Leckhampton may account for their having been, 
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