26 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUI5 



much more reliable than the bore-hole section, owing to 

 the difficulty in boring through Conglomerates, without 

 destroying their character, but there is a remarkable 

 difference in the position of the beds in the two sections, 

 although they are only 300 feet apart. Red Sandstone 

 Rock was found at eleven feet deep, and the beds arc hard 

 Marls, Conglomerates, and Sandstones, but chiefly Con- 

 glomerates of varying character and size. At nineteen 

 feet in a Conglomerate bed, a piece of stone like |)art of an 

 elk or stag's horn was found, and at fifty-two feet some 

 petrified timber. The dij) of th(^ strata is chieHv from 

 west to east. It is only one in sixty to about forty feet, 

 but then the dip increases until at 126 feet, it is one 

 in twelve. The water over-flowing from the bore-hole 

 was not affected until 26 feet had been reache(l, and the 

 water in the colliery shaft, which was 46 feet from the 

 surface at the commencement, was not altered until after 

 passing through a bed of (Conglomerate 31 feet thi<-k. 

 from 58 feet to 88 feet of depth of well. 'I'his bed was 

 very hard, with traces of iron and some large i)el)bles. 

 The next eleven feet consist of Marlstone, Sandstone, and 

 a dark l)roken Conglomerate, and from 99 feet to no feet 

 Conglomerate eleven feet thick, with large pebbles, nearlv 

 six inches in diameter, followed by five feet of very dark 

 mottled Conglomerate to 115 feet in dcj)th, then .seven feet 

 of grey rock and Conglomerate to 122 feet deep, six feet 

 of hard Red Sandstone to 128 feet, and six feet of mottled 

 Conglomerate to 134 feet, the present depth. 



As was ])ointed out at the visit of the Club two vears 

 ago, it is singular that with such a large drainage, so little 

 water finds its way to the surface. Mr Lucy said the only 

 way he could explain the matter was this : — That in all 

 probabihty an under-ground current passes beneath the 

 bed of the Severn near Over into the very deep gravel 

 pit there. In the early i)art of their negociations the 

 Corporation sank a well near Over Bridge, in the hope of 



