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which—excepting such changes as might be expected in 
a Superficial Deposit—was the same over the whole area 
devoted to the buildings. 
SECTION OF THE SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS AT THE 
GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER Thickness in 
> 
feet inches 
1. Black earth, full of fragments of char- 
Maile coal and Roman pottery (Gallo-Roman 
and New-Forest)—especially at the 
praund: base, a portion of a Roman tile, a coin 
Rone (circa A.D. 300), oyster-shell, He/rx 
Veehaaae nemoralis, Linn., Helix aspersa, Mill., 
: and bones (Zguus caballus, Bos taurus, 
Ovis aries and Sus scrofa); ift. 8in. to 3 oO 
Oolite 2. Sand, reddish, passing down into reddish 
fragments and greenish clay, with—at the base— 
abundant, & deposits of Oolite gravel peculiarly 
subangular. nipped up between ‘“‘ streamers” of 
“* Local the reddish sandy clay of the bedbelow 4 4 
Drift.” (3. Greenish clay, which gives off tongues 
Clay-Bed. { that pass downwards into the deposit 
below ... vas +s > 
‘ 4. Sand, reddish, claye ee 
Os Sines 5 Sand, very ae thickness, ob- 
Pare ag liquely -laminated: oin. torft.3in. o 8 
well-rolled. |9 Sand, red, coarse, with numerous 
Saniined quartzite and quartz pebbles, and small 
@ Wane flat pebbles or concretions of a sub- 
Drift” stance externally black and internally 
pebbles pre- yellow, an occasional flint, and small 
Seal 8 well-rolled pieces of Oolite and Lias 
« Bareton" limestones, with rarely a well-rolled 
Drift.” | Gryphea arcuata (Lamarck) ... i) kn 
; v7. Sand, fairly fine quartzose: seen tea 
The Kingsholm pit, described by W. C. Lucy,* 
quite close. There, as here, the “ Local Drift” was seen 
to overlie, and to be sharply marked off -from the 
“Northern Drift;” but Lucy does not record any in- 
tervening clay-bed such as constitutes one of the principal 
features of the present section. 
The Roman remains were confined to the black earth 
at the top of the section, and included a considerable 
quantity of broken pottery, a coin of about A.D. 300, etc. 
1 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. v., pt. 2 (for!1869), p. 78. 
