152 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
6.—SECTION AT BOURNE BANK, NEAR DEFFORD 
This section, although it is situated a little within the 
borders of Worcestershire, is given here, because it affords 
interesting information regarding certain beds. The exact 
position of the section is in a cutting at Bourne Bank on 
the Upton-on-Severn to Defford road. I am not aware of 
any previous reference to this section. 
A thick bed of yellowish-white sandstone is the equiva- 
lent of the Bone-bed. In lithic characters, it is precisely 
similar to the contemporaneous deposit at Bushley, and 
it contains (z.e., the bed at Bourne Bank), numerous 
“ Pullastra” (two forms, one considerably more elongate 
than the other), and the broad form of MWodzola. ‘Traces 
of the mineral Baryto-Celestine are not unfrequent. 
Angular fragments of a brownish rock are often con- 
tained in the sandstone, and these, Dr Callaway thinks, may 
be Uriconian Felsite. 
Underlying the sandstone is a mass of black laminated 
shales: a thickness of 2 feet 8 inches was recorded with- 
out reaching the Keuper Marls. The equivalent of what 
is bed 7 at Wainlode Cliff occurs in two seams, and agrees 
in its faunal and lithic characters with that. stratum. 
Resting upon greenish-yellow marly shales is the /stherza- 
bed, which comes to the surface in the wood to the 
north of the road-cutting, and the contained Vazadite and 
Estherie are very well preserved. The following beds, 
dipping about 12°E, were noticed :— 
SECTION IV.—BOURNE BANK. 
ft. ings 
3 LIMESTONE, Esthevia-bed, Cream-coloured argillaceous 
limestone, non-nodular, irregular fracture. Matadita 
lanceolata, Estheria minuta var. Brodieana oe 4 
5 SHALES, greenish-yellow, marly, coarsely laminated 
7 LIMESTONE, bluish, in two seams; /ecten valoniensis, 
Schizodus, and much shell debris Esa 
13a SANDSTONE, calcareous; ‘‘ Pullastra” ... i, mit 
14 SHALES, black, laminated ... a ht about. =. 8 
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