VOL. XVI.(2). | EXCURSION—HARESFIELD 113 
Mr L. Richardson (/on. Secretary), and Messrs W. Bellows, S. J. 
Coley, J. M. Collett, G. M. Currie; O: H. Fowler, J. G. Phillips, 
Vincent A. Smith, W. Thompson, and C. C. Young. 
Haresfield Beacon is one of the prominent spurs of the Cotteswold 
Hills, and well-known to geologists as a classic locality for the 
Cephalopod-Bed. 
The Members detrained at Haresfield Station, and in their climb 
up the hill crossed over the upper portion of the Lower Lias, the 
“*rock-bed” of the Middle Lias, and the clays and sands of the Upper 
Lias, until they came near the summit to the impure limestones of the 
Cephalopod-Bed and the hard strata of the Inferior Oolite. 
In the road-cutting near the top of the hill, Mr C. Upton pointed 
out the junction of the Opaliniforme-Bed with the Scisswm-Beds, and 
made some general remarks upon the paleontology of the beds. 
Mr L. Richardson then added some remarks. He observed that the 
Upper Lias was not always of the same lithic composition. At Bredon 
Hill, as they knew, it was almost wholly clay, with a few limestone- 
nodules. Here it was mainly an arenaceous deposit, while at the top 
was that interesting capping—the Cephalopod-Bed. In the road-side 
before them was the junction of this very ammonitiferous zone with 
the Inferior Oolite. Above the Scsswm-Beds was the Lower Lime- 
stone, a rock once extensively worked in the now-abandoned quarries 
at their back. This Lower Limestone attained considerable import- 
ance in the neighbourhood of Stroud, and was thus named by the late 
Edwin Witchell, but it was intimately connected with the Pea-Grit, 
for the top-portion, at any rate, of the Lower Limestone was frequently 
pisolitic, and to all intents and purposes “‘ Pea-Grit.” 
A move was then made in the direction of the old earthworks. 
On the summit, Mr W. Bellows made some remarks on a tumulus a 
short distance away, which he—in company with others—had opened, 
and concerning which he had contributed a short notice to the Club’s 
“Proceedings.” * Mr Richardson and*Mr Upton added some remarks 
upon the camps, but then driving rain came on, and the contemplated 
visit to the Cephalopod-Bed section at the ‘‘ Point” had to be 
abandoned. 
Some of the Members had tea at a cottage on the hill-side, and 
others at the hotel at the foot, the party returning by the 6.34 p.m. 
train. 
1 Proc, Cotteswold Nat. F. C., vol. xv., p. 3 (1906), p. 258. 
