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Below the “Tea-green Marls” can be seen the Red 
Marls, which become more in evidence as the hill is 
descended. 
b.— The Dunhampstead Section. 
The earliest account of this section is by H. E. Strick- 
land,’ who examined it when the original Birmingham and 
Gloucester Railway was made, about the year 1840. As 
Mr Harrison, however, observed in 1877, Strickland did 
not study it with that detail which was considered neces- 
sary, even in ’77. . 
Strickland’s record of it was as follows :— 
“(a) Lias clay with contorted beds of lias 
limestone 
(b) White micaceous sandstone, with nu- 
merous specimens of a smooth oval 
Biya pe) Soe ce en ok a ee 2 feet 
Cops eee lay = er Seg ene eee ee re 6° = 
(Grey eat es Ole on ee 
(e)) Bee ilar eae tie cack Makes ee ‘ 
Bed b this author considered the equivalent of the 
Bone-bed, a conclusion with which the present writer is in 
agreement, but the thickness of the deposit called by 
Strickland “Lias clay,” appears to be 4 feet I inch, not 
6 feet. Mr Harrison put it at 3 feet 4 inches. 
The Rev. P. R. Brodie, in his work “A History of the 
Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of England,” pub- 
lished in 1845, remarked that Strickland had found the 
“ Cypris-bed” (2.e., the Lstheria-bed) and Pecten- and 
Bone-beds at this locality, but that the “ Insect-limestone ” 
was concealed, although it would be probably detected in 
its proper place.* 
Mr G. E. Roberts observed, “at Dunhampstead.... . 
the ridge is cut through by the Gloucester Railway ; and 
here the Bone-bed—a hard, thin stratum, full of the scales 
1 Proc. Geol. Soc., Vol. iii. (1842), p. 314; see also pp. 586, 587; Memoirs, pp. 137, 
138, 157, and Pls. 7 and 8; Trans. Geol. Soc., Ser. 2, Vol. vi., pp. 545-555. 2 P, 72- 
