VOL. XVI. (1) EXCURSION—FOREST OF DEAN a3 
EXCURSION TO THE FOREST OF DEAN 
TUESDAY, September 11th, 1906 
Director: LL. RICHARDSON 
(Report by W. THOMPSON) 
The Members who attended the last Meeting of the Season 
were :—Mr W. R. Carles, C.M.G., F.L.S., F.R.G.S. (President), 
Rev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S., Dr C. Callaway, F.G.S., Mr C. Upton 
(Vice-Presidents), Mr A. S. Helps (Hon. Treasurer), Mr F. J. Cullis, 
F.G.S. (Hon. Librarian), Mr L. Richardson F.G.S. (Hon. Secretary), 
Mr E. Talbot Paris (Hon. Assistant-Secretary), Lieut.-Col.. J. C. Duke, 
and Messrs A. Cockshott, J. M. Collett, F.C.S., G. M. Currie, O. H. 
Fowler, J. W. Gray, F.G.S., J. N. Hobbs, J. G. Phillips, A. Slater, 
W. J. Stanton, F.R.G.S., A. J. Stephens, and Surgeon-Major I. 
Newton. 
The Members assembled at Speech House Road Station at 
I2.1I p.m. 
The first halt was made by the road-side, near the large quarries 
in the Pennant-Grit. Here Mr Richardson, who discharged the duties 
of Director during the excursion, made a few remarks on the geologi- 
cal features of the Forest. The Carboniferous rocks have been 
so arranged by crust-pressure as to form a basin. As a consequence, 
the newest strata are to be found in the centre, and the nearer 
the periphery is approached the older are the rocks encountered. In 
travelling from Speech House Road it naturally followed that older 
and older rocks would be seen cropping out; the railway-station just 
left behind being nearer the centre of the basin than Staunton, to which 
they were going. The Whittington Coal, which was being worked 
close to where the Members were standing, dipped towards the 
Station and came above the Pennant-Grit that was being worked in the 
large quarries. Below the Grit was the Coleford High Delf Coal, 
which was formerly worked by means of a shallow shaft on Coleford 
Meend,’ and by an adit a little farther to the west where the seam 
crops out. 
The party next climbed to the top of the Pennant-Grit quarries, 
and witnessed the raising of a large block—probably weighing eight or 
nine tons—to the surface, by means of a steam-crane. The quarries 
at this point are considerably over 100 feet deep. 
A short drive brought the Members to Coleford, where a halt was 
made for light refreshments. Then the drive was resumed for 
Staunton and the Buckstone, and on the way the curious Long Stone 
was inspected and photographed. It stands on the north-east side of 
1 Welsh AZynzdd—a mountain. The high bare commons above the towns or villages 
in the Forest of Dean are nearly always called A/eends (J. Bellows.) 
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