50 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1904 
The section (fig. 1) will give some idea of the material 
above the gravel. 
F SOIL (2” to 4”) 
SUB-SOIL (3” to 8”) 
OOLITE- } (3" to 
RUBBLE 18”) 
STONE BAND 
(14" to 24") 
Roman 
Coins 
: Bones, 
Se pore OLD SOIL 
<= Pebbles, kc. (10 to 18”) 
Small Pit 
GRAVEL 
with angular 
stones of 
Oolite 
(7' to 9’) 
Fig. 1.—SECTION OF KING’S BEECHES GRAVEL QUARRY. 
Soil and subsoil. 
Fine oolite-débris. 
Band of angular fragments of oolite. 
Old soil, in which bones, pottery, etc., occur. This 
deposit is very hard and compact, as if well 
trodden. The stones embedded in the surface 
are smooth, as though from much use, and re- 
semble those from a well-worn pathway. They 
are quite distinct from the overlying stones. 
5. Gravel, with large and small blocks of oolite. 
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The gravel-pit faces west, and is about twenty-five yards 
in length by four yards deep. The thickness of the 
deposit removed to uncover the gravel varies from three 
to five feet in depth, and is undoubtedly the continuation 
of a quarry “tip” which lies behind the platform. The 
removal of the gravel has exposed a number of ancient 
pits, which appear to consist of three types. 
