II2 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1908 
the main sedimentary, consisting of conglomerates, sandstones, and 
shales, with but few volcanic beds. I attach great weight to the 
opinion of Prof. Bonney, who independently arrived at the same 
conclusion, as stated above.” 
The Members then went on and visited a quarry on the east side 
of the road about half-way between Roecliffe Hall and Woodhouse 
Eaves, where they saw the Keuper Marls filling in a trough-like valley 
in the slaty rocks which have been largely quarried in this neigh- 
bourhood.* 
After some botanizing had been accomplished, under Mr Reader’s 
guidance, the break was rejoined, and the Members drove to the gate 
on the Roecliffe Hall and Newton Linford road, which gives access to 
the hill on which Old John Tower in Bradgate Park is built. From here 
there was a magnificent view over the greater part of the craggy and 
partly-wooded seventeen square miles of country that constitutes the 
Forest, and that finds its culminating point in Bardon Hill (912 feet), 
and over the surrounding Midland plain. 
A sharp shower enforced a halt under some trees for a few 
minutes, but then the walk was continued past the stately ruins 
of Bradgate Park, where the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey was born. 
A visit to a quarry on the opposite side of the stream, where the 
Brand Quartzite is exposed, and a brief inspection of the syenitic mass 
by the path-side on the way to Newton Linford, terminated the day’s 
work. 
The break was rejoined at Linford, and the return drive to 
Leicester taken by way of the picturesque sheet of water at Groby, 
called ‘‘ The Pool.” 
The return train left Leicester at 5.47 p.m., arriving at Chelten- 
ham at 8.16 p.m. 
HALF-DAY EXCURSION TO HARESFIELD, 
NEAR GLOUCESTER 
SATURDAY, July 6th, 1907 
Directors: L. RICHARDSON and C. UPTON 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON) 
On Saturday afternoon, July 6th, a party of the Club visited 
Haresfield Beacon. ‘Those present were :—Mr W. R. Carles (Presé- 
dent), Mr C. Upton (Vice-President), Mr F. J. Cullis (on. Librarian), 
I See W. W. Watts’ “ Geology for Beginners ” (1898), fig. 155, p, 222. 
