138 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1908 
The Hock-Cliff section is best reached by proceeding 
by the steamer down the Gloucester Ship-Canal to 
Frampton Bridge, from which it is only a mile distant 
(fig. 1.) Passing the Church at Fretherne, a gate will be 
Fic. 1.—Map to show the position of Hock Cliff. 
(Below the word “ Reddings.”) 
noticed on the left-hand side of the road giving access to 
a field between two woods. Following the path across 
this field, the Severn will come into view, and the edge of 
the cliff be reached. Turning to the left (over the stile) 
into the wood, the cliff may be descended at the first 
negotiable place—about two-thirds of the way through the 
wood. 
“Northern Drift” caps the section, and the Liassic 
beds have a prevalent south-easterly dip (Plate XV.) 
Therefore the newest deposits are found at the eastern 
end. 
Almost at the top of the cliff, where it is suggested 
that the investigator should descend, interstratified in a 
yellowish loamy clay, is a rubbly limestone-band, earthy, 
greyish, and crowded with an undetermined species of 
LRhynchonella. Descending to the beach, the limestone-bed 
seen at the commencement of the low cliff is bed 8 of the 
record on page 139. Some four feet below it are indica- 
tions of an intermittent, ferruginous layer, with numerous 
