208 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1906 
ON A WELL-SINKING IN THE UPPER LIAS 
AT PAINSWICK, NEAR STROUD. 
BY 
L. RICHARDSON. 
Exposures of the Upper-Lias clays are not numerous in 
the Mid-Cotteswolds, and therefore it is particularly desir- 
able that whenever the beds are exposed to view, their 
lithic and faunal characters should be carefully noted. 
Miss M. K. Hutton, of Harescombe, having informed 
me (in 1905) that a well had been sunk in an orchard at a 
house called ‘‘Stamages ” (less than a quarter of a mile 
south-south-west of Painswick Church) and showed me 
some fossils that she had found there, I asked Mr Paris to 
visit the locality and see if any further information was to 
be obtained. He procured a few more fossils and noticed 
that the well had been sunk in blue clay that contained a 
few small concretions. 
In the Cotteswold Hills the Upper Lias (Toarcian) is 
seen to pass from an almost wholly arenaceous to a com- 
pletely argillaceous development. In the Stroud district, 
according to Witchell, the clay portion is 68 feet thick and 
the sand about 100 feet. Judging from the evidence 
which has been obtained at Chalford, Nailsworth, and now 
‘at Painswick, the clay portion was laid down during the 
hemere /alczfert, befrontes, Lilli and varzabelrs. The 
well at “Stamages” was sunk in the /adczferum- and 
bzfrons-beds, the clay excavated yielding, in addition to the 
zonal ammonites, /farpoceras aff. falceferum (Sow.), 
Dactylioceras cf. commune (Sow.), D. cf. bollense, Zieten, 
Belemnites tripartitus, Schloth., Zezllerca Darwinz (Desl. 
non Dav.), ? Terebratula Jaubertz, Desl., Lnoceramus 
dubtus, Sow., Nuculana Hausmanni (Roemer), and fish- 
remains. 
