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as I think, somewhat overlooked; but as they constitute, in the 
north eastern and south western extremities of the Cottes- 
wolds, the sole representatives of the Inferior Oolite, and 
extend over a large area, they appear to me to deserve closer 
examination. 
The Inferior Oolite forms the escarpment of the Cotteswold 
range, but in consequence of the great denudation that has 
taken place, the higher beds of the formation are absent, and 
the top of the escarpment is either the Upper Trigonia Grit, 
as shown in the Cleeve and Leckhampton Sections, and at 
Painswick and Selsley Hills, or the Freestone beds, as at 
Birdlip, the Horsepools, Haresfield, Frocester, Uley, and 
Stinchcombe Hills. In the absence, therefore, of any beds 
along the line of the escarpment higher in position than the 
Upper Trigonia Grit, we have to look for these Upper Ragstones 
in the escarpments of the river valleys of the Cotteswolds ; but 
even there some difficulty is experienced in finding Sections 
unless they are sought by a person locally acquainted with the 
district or the ground is systematically explored, as in the 
Geological Survey. 
In his Memoir Professor Hurz mentions a rubbly white 
Oolite as occurring at the top of the formation immediately 
below the Fuller’s Harth, which he has named the “ Clypeus 
Grit.” This rubbly white Oolite occupies the same position 
in the Stroud district, but the “Grit” is, I think, the bed 
next below, and is described by Professor Hutu as occurring 
throughout the north-eastern Cotteswolds—at Colesbourne, 
around Brimpsfield, at Stow, Rissington, the high land from 
Icomb Camp to Burford, Swinbrook, and the north and south 
sides of the Evenlode. In the neighbourhood of Stow it rests 
on the Midford Sands, and, where these are absent, upon 
the Upper Lias. Professor Hux has given only one detailed 
Section, viz., at Little Rissington ; it is as follows :— 
ft. in: 
1. Coarse white rubbly Oolite, with Clypeus Plotii, Terebratula 
globata, Pholadomya, &c. a ae eas sora eg 
Diario ROE MAN Mey ris i wise) (ase; ata! nce Load Ome 
