io8 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1910 



more than record the actual succession, and to briefly indicate 

 where the several deposits can best be studied. 



The hill is most conveniently approached from Berkeley- 

 Road Station. A slight rise leads up to the platform formed 

 by the Marlstone, which — in this area in particular — has been 

 extensively quarried for road-metal. At the south-eastern end 

 of the large quarry still (1910) in work, near the Yewtree Inn, 

 indications of the richly- fossiliferous " Transition-Bed" of the 

 Midlands (a deposit of acuti hemera) have been noticed by 

 Messrs Beeby Thompson and W. D. Crick ; but they are diffi- 

 cult to find now.' 



To the Marlstone succeeds the Upper-Lias clay, which may 

 be anything up to 40 feet in thickness. A well sunk in the field 

 in the hollow between the Yewtree Inn and the hill, and now 

 marked by the windmill, proved the Falcifcrum-Beds ; while in 

 a " Section in the road at Stinchcombe," opposite Peers Court, 

 Mr S. S. Buckman informs me, he obtained evidence of 

 the Bifyons-Beds with the Cotteswold Sands above. ^ 



On the way up the hill there is ample evidence of the 

 Cotteswold Sands, and near where the wall commences above 

 the gravel-pit, the Cephalopod-Bed is seen cropping out in the 

 bed of the road. It is only indifferently exposed here, and is 

 best seen in the deeply-cut lane leading from Break-Heart Hill 

 down to the inn near Fording Brook. In this lane there is also 

 the finest section through the Sands that there is in the 

 Cotteswold Hills — the Sands being about 230 feet thick, and 

 visible for nearly their entire thickness. Near the bottom of 

 the lane some hardish bands are interstratified in the Sands, 

 and have yielded a few specimens of Haiigia. The lithic and 

 faunal characters and sequence of component layers of the 

 Cephalopod-Bed here are so similar to their equivalents at 

 North Nibley and Wotton-under-Edge that a detailed record 

 of this section is really unnecessary. 



Passing on to the Common on the hill, a number of old 

 quarries will be observed. The beds exposed in them are 

 described in the record given on page 112. A rubbly layer is 

 queried as being on the horizon of the Pea-Grit, and if this sur- 

 mise is correct it makes, of course, the Freestone above it, 

 Lower Freestone, and that below it. Lower Limestone. 



I Rep. Bribt. Assoc, for i8gi, p. 350. 2 Quart. Joum. Geol. Soc, vol. xlv. (1889), p. 446. 



