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conspicuous valley which is continued towards the south- 
east across the line of the Rheetic escarpment. Probably 
a river once rising considerably further to the north-west 
has excavated both the valley between Forest Hill and 
Hanbury, and also the prolongation running north of the 
farm known as “Great Lodge.” Noticeable through 
valleys” occur at Sale Green, and north-west of Broughton 
Hackett. 
The section exposed in the road-cutting at Bourne 
Bank, near Defford, has been already described:* subsequent 
research at this locality has yielded no additional facts 
of interest. 
In a “Postcript to the Memoir on the Occurrence 
of the ‘ Bristol Bone-bed’ in the neighbourhood of Tew- 
kesbury,” Strickland brought forward evidence to show 
that the ossiferous development of the Bone-bed was 
passed through by a shaft sunk on Defford Common 
about half-a-mile to the east of the escarpment.” This 
shaft was sunk about the year 1772, and attained a depth 
of 175 feet. It was abandoned in the “ Tea-green Marls,” 
and consequently the horizon of the Bone-bed was passed 
through. Portions of this bed brought to the surface 
yielded to Strickland his “ Pzd/astra arenicola ;” and 
teeth, scales and coprolites of fish. 
Between Croome Park and Norton the physical indica- 
tions of the junction of the Keuper and Rheetic Series are 
very insignificant. A little under three-quarters of a mile 
to the north of Croome D’Abitot Church the junction of 
the two series may be observed, and the exposure is 
useful as it demonstrates the probable nature and the 
thickness of the deposit below the Bone-bed-equivalent 
at Bourne Bank. 
t Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. xiv., pp. 152) 153+ 2° Memoirs of H. E. Strickland,” 
by Sir W. Jardine (1858), p. 160; Proc. Geol. Soc., Vol. iti. (1842), p- 732- 
