12 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1907 
After a short halt for lunch, Prof. Lapworth took the Members 
into a field near the Lickey Obelisk, where he made some remarks 
upon the physiography of the district, and then conducted them 
to a small way-side exposure of the celebrated Trappoid Breccia 
(Permian) on Berrow Hill. This Trappoid Breccia is largely made up 
of angular chips and masses of igneous rock, sometimes irregularly 
disposed, sometimes intermixed with layers of red sandstone and marl. 
The components of the Breccia are lavas, tuffs, and volcanic grits, 
with occasional slabs or fragments of fossiliferous sandstones and 
limestones. These angular fragments are usually embedded in a 
matrix of sandy material or in a marly paste. According to the 
late Sir Andrew Ramsay, the materials of this Breccia were largely 
derived from the distant hills of the Wrekin, Caradoc, &c., in 
Shropshire, having been brought by ice during the Permian period. 
According to Jukes and some of the local Birmingham geologists, they 
were possibly derived in whole or in part from various Midland 
ranges now almost wholly buried beneath the Trias. 
The next stop was at the large quarry opposite the school 
in Rubery village, where there is an instructive section showing 
the Upper Llandovery resting unconformably upon the Cambrian 
Quartzite. As Prof. Lapworth pointed out, there is a vast thickness 
of deposit absent from this section—the whole of the Shale Division of 
the Cambrian and the Ordovician. At this section the May Hill 
Sandstone is conglomeratic at the base, containing large rolled 
fragments derived from the underlying Quartzite. Prof. Lapworth 
thinks there is little doubt that the May Hill Sandstone fringes 
the Cambrian Quartzite of the Rednal Lickey on the east side along the 
whole length of the ridge; but in most places it is covered up 
by newer rocks, showing through, however, at Rednal Green. 
Some of the Members had tea at Rubery, and then drove back to 
Barnt-Green Station; others walked back, obtaining tea on the way at 
Rednal Gorge. ; 
. J. Sherborne and C. C. C. Young were elected Members. 
HALF-DAY EXCURSION TO RODBOROUGH HILL, STROUD 
SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1906 
Directors: S. J. COLEY (botanical), L. RICHARDSON and 
CHARLES UPTON (geological). 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON). 
The Members taking part in this excursion, in addition to the 
Directors, were :—Mr A. S. Helps (Hon. Treasurer), Mr F. J. Cullis, 
F.G.S. (Hon. Librarian), and Messrs W. E. Baxter, F.G.S., C. E. 
Gael, J. W. Gray, -F GS. We Margetson, J. .W. Skinner; GAsuee 
