168 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
The third outlier at Clay Hill is capped by Lower Lias, 
but no Rheetic sections were observed. 
3——THE RHATIC ROCKS TO THE EAST OF 
THE SEVERN. 
In the neighbourhood of Elmore the outcrop of the 
Rheetics is very obscure, and no sections were observed.* 
The probable depth at which the Rhetics would be 
found beneath Gloucester, was determined by a boring 
made by Messrs Robertson and Co. at the “Island” in 
1883, and was recorded by Mr Lucy.” The last fossils 
procured before the boring was abandoned, 7ornatel/a or 
Cyfindrites, enabled Mr Etheridge to state that the boring 
had reached the “lower bed of the Bucklandz,” and that 
probably the Rhzetics would be reached in another 80 feet. 
Since, 350% feet of Lower Lias limestone and clays had 
been already pierced, the probable depth at which the 
Rhetics would be found is 430% feet. 
4.—THE AREA BETWEEN MINSTERWORTH AND 
HASFIELD 
The country to be now described affords few sections in 
the Rheetic, and the probable outcrop continues to be 
obscure. In a deeply cut wheel-track about 500 yards 
south of the house known as “Highgrove” (or 
“ Hygrove,”) a little north-east of Minsterworth, the 
Estheria-bed is exposed. In one part of the bank it is 
seen as a cream-coloured argillaceous limestone, six inches 
thick, containing, in the lower portion, fragments of 
Natadite and Estheria. It also crops out in the road, 
(1) Asa hard blackish-blue crystalline limestone, and (2) 
t In the lane leading from Elmore to Wear Farm, the basement beds of the Lower 
Lias, much disturbed, are exposed, and contain Lima gigantea, Ostrea liassica, and fish 
scales. 2 Proc, Cotteswold Club, Vol. viii. (1886), p. 215. 
