70 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1901 
It is indeed mainly in connection with these Sutton 
beds that reference is made by authors to this district. 
The most important information on the deposits of the 
area is contained in the writings of Charles Moore, who 
considered the beds to belong to Rhetic White Lias. 
The stone he noted was very durable, and could be raised 
in blocks of many tons weight, and, if facilities for its _ 
transit existed, might be largely used." Mr. Ussher re- 
surveyed this district,” and the results of his examination 
showed that “ westwards the Lower Lias extends on to 
the Carboniferous Limestone, overlapping the Rhetic in 
places.” In 1888, Mr. H. B. Woodward visited the - 
Downside quarry, recording the occurrence of Gastero- 
pods, Modiola, Cardinia, and Ostrea, all very poorly 
preserved, and there was, consequently, difficulty in 
zoning; but he considers “there can be very little doubt 
that the beds are of the age of the Sutton Stone.”* 
According to the classification of the late Edward 
Wilson, no Rhetic beds are present in this area. Below 
the Pszloceras planorbis beds, however, and resting on 
Carboniferous Limestone, lies a deposit which I have dated 
as pre-planorbis. This occurs near Goblincombe farm> 
as a conglomerate bone-bed, containing Gyvolepis Albert, 
Saurichthys apicalis, and Hybodus minor, imbedded in an 
argillaceous matrix, with Carboniferous Limestone pebbles, 
and derived oolitic grains. It occurs in a trough, carved 
out of the summit of the anticline, and is exposed in the 
lane west of the Farm. Near Broadfield, appears 
another remarkable rock, composed mainly of derived 
oolitic grains; its age is probably Lower Lias. Near 
I Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxiii., pp. 504, 505- 
2 Sheet xix., Geological Survey, 1873. 
3 Mem. Geol. Sury., “ Jurassic Rocks, etc.,” vol. iii. (1893), p. 133- 
4 Ibid, p. 133. The Sutton beds are of p/anorbis zone, and possibly part of the 
angiulatus zone 
5 Names of Farms, etc., as on County Map, xi. N.E, Somerset. 
