166 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
In the neighbourhood of Wintles Hill and Chaxhill? the 
escarpment marking the junction of the Keuper and Rhetic 
is especially defined, and forms the high ground visible on 
the south-east from the railway at Grange Court. At 
Chaxhill, this escarpment is breached by the road from 
Grange Court to the main Gloucester and Newnham road, 
the cutting being a little to the north of where the former 
joins the latter. 
I have been unable to trace any record of what would 
have been a useful section. A little excavating reveals the 
following beds in the lower portion of the Lower 
Rhetic :— 
ft. in. 
14 SHALES, black, imperfectly laminated a ¥¢ 
15 Bone-bed. Sandstone, micaceous, weathers into a red 
ochre coloured sand; scales of Gy volepis Rf I 
16 SHALES, black, clayey, with a harder band of small shale 
near the middle ... rr. 
17 SANDSTONE, slightly calcareous, brown, micaceous, 
pyrtitic : weathers into several layers. A few scales of 
Gyrolepis in lower portion, 10"-13”... ae ccnp ee 
18 SHALES, black, imperfectly laminated... ae I™3 
SANDSTONE, brown, non-calcareous, micaceous, ripple- 
marked... ie aa ane I 
SHALES, black, imperfectly. laminated... : Ss 
19 SANDSTONE, brown, non-calcareous, micaceous, , ripple- 
marked, weathers into several layers, the lower con- 
taining a few scales of Gyr rolepis and ** Pullastra?? . 6 
20 SHALES, black, firm laminated, 16-230 | 2.2 “a ee eat, 
Arenaceous layer, Pear one I 
Upper I. Light greenish- yellow and white marls : “angular 
Keuper fracture. ‘‘ Tea-green Marls” “x 
II. Red Marls és 
A comparison of the above beds with their equivalents 
at Garden Cliff, reveals the unexpected fact that at Chax- 
hill organic remains are very few. Atmospheric decom- 
position of the iron pyrites often causes a stratum, hard 
1 In this district the basement bed of the Lower Lias is quarried by means of shallow 
workings. The stone occurs about 13¢ feet below the surface, and after it has been 
removed the ground is levelled and becomes pasture land again. Iam informed that most 
of this district has been thus quarried (June 1902.) 
