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. Cotteswold Sands. 
a 1 Upper-Lias Clay. 
‘ J Marlstone. 
M. Lias \ Sandy beds of the Middle Lias. 
i; Lias Capricornus-Beds. 
G. E. Gavey informed the Rev. P. B. Brodie, about 
the year 1850, that at Chipping Campden, near Ebrington 
Hill, the freestone rested “immediately upon the Lias, so 
that the Pisolite is entirely wanting.”* He did not 
realise that the freestone was equivalent to the Lower 
Limestone and Pea-Grit. 
Prof. E. Hull, in 1857, compared the freestone that 
caps Ebrington Hill with the Upper Freestone of Leck- 
hampton Hill.’ . 
Prof. J. W. Judd gave some details of the Inferior 
Oolite of Ebrington Hill in his well-known essay “On 
the Classification of the Jurassic Strata of the Midland 
District, and their Correlation with those of the Cotteswold 
Hills and the North-east of Yorkshire respectively.” 3 
The beds exposed when Prof. Judd visited the hill were 
apparently more sandy and ferruginous than those now 
seen. He records that these sandy and ferruginous strata 
on the one hand “are indistinguishable in character from 
many portions of the Northampton Sand, as seen in 
Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire,” and on the other 
that they “are admitted on all hands to be the northerly 
prolongation of the Pea-Grit and Lower Freestones of the 
Inferior Oolite, and to represent the zone of Ammnzonites 
Murchisone.” 
In 1906, Mr E A. Walford published, for private 
circulation, a paper “On some New Oolitic Strata in 
North Oxfordshire.” In it he describes beds of later 
I Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. vii. (1850), p. 209 (footnote). 
2 Mem. Geol. Surv., “ The Geology of the Country around Cheltenham ” (1857), 
Prs2: 
3 Mem. Geol. Surv., “ The Geology of Rutland, etc.” (1875), pp. 15-17. 
