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the Red Marl. These he considered to be the equivalents 
of the ‘ Bone-bed’ of the ‘ Avzcula contorta’ series. He 
stated that he had found similar nodules at Sarn Hill and 
elsewhere, occupying the same relative position to the 
under-lying beds.”* What I wish to point out, however, 
is that these nodules are certainly not “the equivalents of 
the ‘ Bone-bed’ of the ‘ Avzcula-contorta’ series,” but that 
they are most probably contemporaneous with the well- 
known remanié bed of Lassington. At Wainlode, as I 
have elsewhere shown,’ the Bone-bed is exposed at one 
end of the cliff as a hard pyritic stratum full of fish-scales 
and teeth; whilst at the other end, and in the left bank of © 
the road descending to the Red Lion Hotel, it is visible as 
a dark-brown micaceous sandstone, about a foot thick, 
devoid of vertebrate remains. Similar phenomena are 
found at Coomb Hill. 
Now, at Bushley, in the shallow cutting on the Tewkes- 
bury and Ledbury road, the Bone-bed-equivalent is that 
yellowish-white, non-ossiferous,* sandstone—a bed 14 ins. 
in thickness. This fact was long ago pointed out by 
H. E. Strickland. The nodules, of which that in the 
Worcester Museum is one, cannot therefore be “the 
equivalents of the ‘ Bone-bed’ of the ‘ dvzcula contorta’ 
series,” since we know what the Bone-bed-equivalent is at 
Bushley. Moreover, we know the greater part of the 
sequence of the component deposits of the Lower Rhetic 
stage, and also that of the Lower Lias at this locality, and 
such nodules have not been observed. 
The Sarn-Hill nodules are, in my opinion, contempor- 
aneous with the remanié bed of Lassington. A comparison 
of the nodule in the Worcester Museum, kindly lent me 
I Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. iii. (1865), p. 53- 
2 Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. xiv., Part 2 (1903), p. 133, and Table I. 
3 This cutting traverses Sarn Hill, and presumably is not far from the locality whence 
the nodules were obtained. 
4 It contains an occasional fish-scale. 
