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bed 6 and the top of bed 7 is the horizon where evidence for 

 the Dumortieria-Bed should have been found if that bed had 

 been present. 



Scissum-'Beds 

 HemercB 



4. opaliniformis 



5. aalensis 



6. / [.■' aalensis &] 

 \ Moorei 



7. (dispansi & 

 \struckmanni 



8. pedici 



i striatuli (marl above 

 I and in interstices 

 ^* \ between nodules of 

 V variabilis hemera) 



Fio. 3. — Profile-sketch of the Cephalopod-Bed in Coaley Wood, near Dursley. 



Leaving Crawley Barns and proceeding towards Stroud, 

 the " Money Quarry," as it is locally called, will be noticed 

 after some 600 yards have been traversed. It exhibits the 

 least typical Top-Beds of the Oohte that I have seen in 

 the Cotteswold Hills, north of Sodbury. At the base of this 

 section are yellowish-grey oolitic limestones (probably belong- 

 ing to the top-portion of the Clypeus-Gx\t : seen 3 feet) ; then 

 come flaggy, well-oolitic yellowish-grey limestones, without any 

 marly partings (4 feet) ; while at the top are more rubbly lime- 

 stones with specimens of Clypeus Ploti abundant. Some 

 yellowish-green clay on the spoil-heaps showed that the 

 Fullers' Earth had not long been removed, geologically speak- 

 ing, by denudation. 



Frocester Hill. — Leaving on the right the celebrated Uley 

 Tumulus, or " Hetty Pegler's Tump," as it is locally called, the 

 breezy and view-commanding Frocester Hill is soon reached. 

 Here there is a very large quarry in the Lower Freestone and 



