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EXCURSIONS 
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EXCURSION TO CIRENCESTER’ 
TUESDAY, May 12th, 1908 
Directors: C. BOWLY, L. RICHARDSON, JOHN SAWYER and 
VEN. ARCHDEACON SINCLAIR. 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON and JOHN SAWYER) 
The Members present were—the Rev. Walter Butt (President), 
Messrs C. Bowly, Charles Upton and W. R. Carles, C.M.G., F.L.S., 
(Vice-Presidents), Mr A. S. Helps (fon. Treasurer), Mr L. Richardson 
(Hon. Secretary), the Revs. C. H. Davies and A. R. Winnington- 
Ingram, Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, Surgeon-Major I. Newton, Deputy 
Surg.-Gen. G. A. Watson, and Messrs Walter Brown, J. M. Collett, 
PG.S.,' FJ; Cullis; F.G.S., G. M. Currie, C. Curtis, J. M. Dixon, 
O. H. Fowler, J. W. Gray, F.G.S., A. Monies, H. E. Norris, J. 
Sawyer, A. J. Stephens and C. C. Young. 
GEOLOGY 
The party met at Kemble Station, where two brakes were waiting 
to continue the journey by way of the Foss Way, past Thames Head 
and the Royal Agricultural College, to ancient Corinium. First of all, 
however, the Members alighted near a small wayside exposure sit- 
uated in the banks of the road that leads from Great Barn under the 
Tetbury Line, and a short distance to the north of the Junction. 
Here Mr Richardson made some general observations on the geology 
of the county over which the Members had travelled in the train, and 
on that of the district they would traverse during the day. A geolo- 
gical map of the district, spread out on the ground, proved useful. 
They were now, he said, upon the great, gently-sloping upland 
of the Cotteswold Hills. The escarpment to the west, which over- 
looks the Lower Severn Valley, is, as they well knew, of the Middle 
Lias, Upper Lias and Inferior Oolite. At a short distance back comes 
the Fuller’s Earth—a band of clay of great importance as regards 
water-supply. Then comes the Great Oolite, with which the name 
1 Records of previous visits to Cirencester will be found detailed in Proceedings 
Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. xiv, pt. 3 (1903), p. 245. 
