VOL. XVI. (1) EXCURSION—SELSLEY HILL & ULEY BURY 17 
Coral-Bed, as was the case at Mount-Vernon Quarry on Rodborough 
Hill. Mr Upton indicated a more or less rubbly limestone-bed, which 
rests directly upon the Upper Z+igonia-Grit, from which the Zerebratula, 
named by him Zer. subspheroidalis, came. The same bed also con- 
tains a new species of Rhynchonella. The Clypeus-Grit and bottom 
portion of the White Limestone, is exposed in Leigh’s Quarry, on 
Selsley Hill, nearer Pen Wood, but there was not time to visit 
this section. The White Limestone in the Stroud area is somewhat 
rubbly at the top, and this rubbly portion may be paralleled in a 
general way with the Rubbly-Beds of the Bath-Doulting district. 
Above comes the Fullers’ Earth. Mr Upton pointed out a place just 
off Selsley Hill where an attempt had been made to utilize the clay for 
brick-making. 
Attention was directed to the pit-dwellings, but Mr Upton 
explained that when an investigation of similar dwellings at Minchin- 
hampton Common was made, the only evidence remaining of pre- 
historic man were certain fire marks. A long raised artificial ridge 
begins at the top of the hill on the Woodchester side, and proceeds in 
the direction of Pen Wood. All the pit-dwellings are on the north 
side of this ridge, and the same feature is observable at Minchinhamp- 
ton Common. 
Splendid views were obtained over the Lower Severn Valley, 
and the botanists of the party found Ovchis maculata in abundance, and 
many of the other plants that thrive on the Inferior-Oolite uplands. 
The Members were then driven in two wagonettes along the 
top of the escarpment to the tumulus situated in a field opposite the 
entrance to Woodchester Park. This tumulus was opened under the 
auspices of the Cotteswold Club in 1862 by Professor James Buckman, 
when thirty-two skeletons were discovered.’ It is one of the long 
barrows, and the stones which formed the chambers may still be seen 
standing in their original position. 
At Frocester Hill there is a large quarry in the Lower Limestone 
and basal portion of the Lower Freestone. 
FROCESTER HILL QUARRY 
Thickness in 
Feet inches 
1. Limestone, white, oolitic: seen i rer fo) 
Lower FREESTONE 2. Rubbly and pebbly layer, with some clay and 
EQUIVALENT OF pisolite-spherules: Zerebratula pisolitica, 
Pea-GRIT Ter. plicata, Ostrea, and a piece of an 
ammonites toS. 4 ee pals O. 5 
. Limestone, not false-bedded ; top well-planed 5 ° 
. Oolite, conspicuously false-bedded. The top 
is very even, and of a white colour, and 
therefore conspicuous _.. 4250 fo} 
5: Oolite, massive, sparry; crowded with Penta- 
crinus-ossicles and echinoid-radioles (frag- 
ments), especially in the lower portion: seen 22 ° 
[Add perhaps 3 0] 
Ww 
Lower LIMESTONE 
1 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. iii, pp. 184-188. 
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