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EXCURSION TO NEWENT AND CLIFFORD’S MESNE 
TUESDAY, May 14th, 1907 
Director: L. RICHARDSON. 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON) 
In spite of the unpromising nature of the weather, and the absence 
of five or six who had signified their intention of coming, there was 
still a large gathering at the first Field Meeting for the season. The 
object of the excursion was to study the geology of the district, and 
particularly of the Newent Coalfield. Among those present were— 
Mr W. R. Carles, C.M.G., F.L.S., F.R.G.S. (President), Mr Charles 
Upton (Vice-President), Mr L. Richardson (Hon. Secretary), the Rev. 
A. R. Winnington-Ingram, Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, Surg.-Major 
I. Newton, Dep.-Surg.-Gen. G. A. Watson, Messrs H. W. Bruton, H. 
Godwin Chance, J. M. Collett, F.C.S., G. M. Currie, T. S. Ellis, R. 
G. Foster, F. Hannam-Clark, J. N. Hobbs, W. Margetson, J. 
Sherborne, J. W. Skinner, Vincent A. Smith, A. J. Stephens, 
W. Thompson and G. L. Searight. 
The Members first visited the long-disused colliery near Oxen- 
hall, where the Director gave the substance of the following paper. 
The ground to be traversed by the Club to-day belongs geogra- 
phically and geologically to two divisions. Geographically it belongs 
to Gloucestershire and Herefordshire ; geologically to the Palaeozoic 
and Neozoic groups. 
North of Newent may be seen the wooded, rolling ground around 
Eastnor, limited eastwards by the ridge-like Malvern Hills ; south, the 
dome-like May Hill—a land-mark in the Lower Severn Valley ; west- 
wards, across Herefordshire, except for certain places where Silurian 
rocks protrude through, stretches the Old Red Sandstone ; eastwards, 
the New Red rocks—the Keuper. The Keuper rocks form the red 
ground around Eldersfield and Pendock, and are exposed in the river- 
cliffs of the Mythe, Tewkesbury, and Wainlode. They dip down and 
disappear beneath the Liassic clays—the << solid” rock that floors the 
vale-land to the east of the Severn, and extends (in the Cheltenham 
