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cottage where he had found Cotham Marble—the northernmost local- 
ity, he believed, at which typical Cotham Marble had been noticed. 
Parted by a very thin shale-deposit were the Ostrea-beds of the Lower 
Fig 2.-SECTION ACROSS THE ESC 
W. 
Hawkesbury Common 
Little Avon 
a. eto 
Lower Lias 
* Rhetic + Marlstone (Scales: vertical, 1 inch=40 
Lias. There is no White Lias intervening. In this neighbourhood 
the Rhetic Series is about 20 feet thick. 
The clay-flats of Inglestone Common presented little of interest. — 
The broken ground by the roadside at the commencement of the 
Common indicated old workings in the limestones such as occur 
throughout Gloucestershire at the base of the Liassic Series. 
Hawkesbury Church was visited, and in the absence of the Vicar; 
who unfortunately did not arrive until the Members were leaving, Mr 
Hannam-Clark made some remarks upon the edifice. 
The Church was restored some twenty years ago, but happily without 
depriving it of the numerous features of antiquarian interest. On the 
south side is a Norman doorway supported by Saxon bases. In the. 
chancel is a matrix of what must once have a very fine brass. It 
belonged to a Benedictine Abbot, and it may be mentioned that as far 
back as the seventh century a religious house stood on the site of the 
Church. It was from Hawkesbury that Earl Liverpool, the statesman 
who served George III., took his title—a title which has been recently 
revived. 
Hawkesbury Church is built upon the Marlstone (see fig. 2). 
Above come Upper-Lias clays, apparently about 12 feet thick, the top 
of which is indicated (especially in wet weather) by the outburst of a 
spring in the road-side. The Cotteswold Sands which succeed, are 
about 180 feet thick, and are capped with the Cephalopoda-bed. The 
strata identified with the Scésswm-Beds are scarcely typical and contain 
