VOL. XVI. (3) EXCURSION—SHEPTON MALLET, FROME 223 
EXCURSION TO SHEPTON MALLET AND FROME 
DISTRICTS 
TUESDAY and WENESDAY, July 14th and 15th, 1908 
Directors: PROF. S. H. REYNOLDS, MAg GS: 
and L. RICHARDSON 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON) 
Those who attended this excursion were :—The Rev. Walter 
Butt (President), Rev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S. (Vice-President), 
Mr L. Richardson (Hon. Secretary), Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, Surgeon- 
Major Isaac Newton, and Messrs A. Cockshott, G. M. Currie, O. H. 
Fowler, J. W. Skinner, etc. ; while Messrs A. W. Halsted and 
W. F. Barnes (Hon. Curator of the Shepton-Mallet Museum), came 
as Visitors, and Prof. S. H. Reynolds, F.G.S., of University College, 
Bristol, to act as Director on the second day. 
The Members arrived at Shepton Mallet on the Tuesday at 
11.14a.m. Here a brake was awaiting them, and they at once drove, 
by way of Doulting, to Mays (or more correctly ‘ Maes”) Down, to 
study a section of the Marlstone. 
‘After Mr Richardson had given an outline of the geology of the 
surrounding country, he dealt with the section close at hand. The 
abandoned quarry, he said, was in the Marlstone, and showed a con- 
siderable thickness of it, which. was interesting, for the Geological 
Survey Map represented Inferior Oolite resting on the Midford Sands, 
and these directly upon the Lower Lias at this spot, without the 
intervention of any Middle Lias. He had described this section in the 
Geological Magazine," and when he first visited it a number of thin 
Upper-Lias beds were visible above the Marlstone. Plenty of evid- 
ence of these Upper-Lias beds was obtained by the members in the 
form of the ammonites Aildoceras bifrons (Sowerby,) Harpoceras 
falciferum (Sowerby,) and Dactylioceras spp. 
The next stop was at the Farmcombe Quarry. Before the Mem- 
bers proceeded to examine the rocks exposed there, Mr Richardson 
gave a brief account of the Inferior Ootite of the Doulting area.’ 
In this neighbourhood, between the Upper Lias and Fuller’s 
Earth, come the following beds, in all over 60 feet thick :— 
Approximate thickness 
in feet. 
Poke i—Rubbly-Beds ; 7Z vrebratula globata, auctt. non 
2 Sow., common, ete, 9 ------ -ea=- =o 8 =CL 
ae aie Anabacia-Lamestones © | 2-2. © (22k =a 84 et 
a iii—Doulting Stone; massive Freestone ___... ------ 44 ue 
[Upper Coral-Bed and Dundry Freestone wanting. ] 
vi.— Conglomerate-Bed” [Upper Trigonia-Grit.] _____- ry 
1 1906, p. 368. 
2 For a detailed description see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xiii (1907), pp: 
389-397. 
