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unnecessarily obtruded on the public eye. Passing to St. Catherine’s 
Chapel, the Archdeacon drew attention to the beautiful altar cloth 
worked by Lady Bathurst whilst nursing her brother in an illness 
which proved fatal. He also pointed out a squint recently discovered 
in the Lady Chapel, and situated near the tomb of Rudder, the county 
historian. 
After tea at Dr O. H. Fowler’s, the Members went to the G.W.R 
Station in time to catch the 4.52 p.m. train. 
HALF-DAY EXCURSION TO STINCHCOMBE HILL, 
NEAR DURSLEY 
SATURDAY, May 30th, 1908 
Director : L. RICHARDSON 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON) 
The following Members took part in this excursion :—Rev. H. 
H. Winwood, F.G.S., and Mr Charles Upton (Vice- Presidents), Mr L. 
Richardson (Hon. Secretary), Mr J. G. Phillips (Hon. Librarian), 
Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, and Messrs W. Bellows, S. J. Coley, J. M. 
Collett, F.C.S., W. Crooke, F.A.I., G. M. Currie, T. S. Ellis, D. E. 
Finlay, J. W. Gray, F.G.S., G. W. Hedley, F.C.S., J...N>Hobba 
W. Margetson, A. E. Smith, Vincent A. Smith, J. W. Skinner, and 
W. Thompson. 
Arrived at Dursley, the members were met by Mr W. E. Loxton, 
who conducted them to a room to inspect his collection of fossils ; but 
time did not permit of a very exhaustive examination being made. 
Then came the steep ascent of the hill through the picturesque 
Cockshoot Wood. Arrived at the summit, the Golf Course was 
crossed, and the ‘‘ Stancombe Quarry” on the east side of Hollow 
Combe reached. Here a general account of the geology of the 
neighbourhood was given. 
The general geology of the neighbourhood of Dursley is very 
simple. The solid rock of the low ground of the vale, up to some- 
where near the 200-foot contour line, is Lower Lias; then come the 
sandy shaly clays of the Middle Lias, which are succeeded by the 
hard rock-bed or Marlstone of the same stage, which gives rise to 
such noticeable tabulated promontories as that upon which the hamlet 
called ‘‘ The Quarry” is built. The Upper Lias, which succeeds, is 
about 270 feet thick, and of this some 230 feet is sand. ‘The over- 
lying Inferior Oolite gives rise to the steeply-scarped and flat-topped 
nature of the upper portion of the hill; while at Break-Heart Hill is a 
small outlier of Fuller’s Earth and basal Great-Oolite beds. 
