PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTlvSWOLD CLUB 207 



visiting sections on the route from Dowdeswell to Coles- 

 IJourne down the Hilcot valley : whieh, hy the way, is a 

 remarkable pieee of river exeavation. On the return 

 journey from Colesbourne, a brief visit to Seven Springs 

 gave Mr. Buckman an oi)portunity to explain the changes 

 which have taken place in the configuration of the district 

 since the Chalk spread not only over the Cotteswolds, but 

 also over what is now the Severn Wile. 



The last Field Meeting of the Club was held on Tues- 

 day, the 31st August, when the members present were 

 most ably chaperoned by Mr. Winwood, who has kindly 

 written the following geological notes of the day's ex- 

 cursion 



On leaving Charfield Station the attention of the mem- 

 bers was invited to an exposure of vesicular basalt at the 

 side of the road west of the station. It was difficult 

 however to recognise the section now as the excavation 

 has been filled up with refuse. On the top of Hammerley 

 Down a halt was made, and an old quarry of Lower Lime- 

 stone Shales, on the left-hand side of the road, inspected. 



At the bottom of the hill a fine quarry, worked in the 

 Lower Limestone, was seen, the beds dipping rapidly to the 

 south, some of the upper beds being oolitic. Passing 

 through Bibstone and Cromhall — the northern apex of the 

 Bristol and Gloucestershire coal -basin — the members 

 crossed the Old Red Sandstone of Milbury Heath, and, 

 after luncheon and a long drive, found themselves beneath 

 the Rhzetic Cliff's of Aust. A shelter having been sought 

 in vain from the high wind, Mr. Winw^ood described the 

 section to the few energetic members who braved the 

 gusts, under difficulties. Having on a geological map 

 shown the day's route, and that they had crossed from the 

 eastern edge of the coal-basin to the western, he said 

 that every member of the Cotteswold Club ought to be 



