ii8 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1910 



Lower Limestone ; while in the bank below, by the side of the 

 main-road, is the section of the Cephalopod-Bed which has 

 been examined by so many geologists. 



Witchell was the first to point out that the main mass of 

 the freestone in the large quarry was Lower Limestone and not 

 Lower Freestone, and that the rubbly-bed about 12 feet from 

 the top was on the horizon of the Pea-Grit. Certain authors 

 had thought that the Scissum-Beds here were correlative with 

 the Pea-Grit of the neighbourhood of Cheltenham, and there- 

 fore naturally paralleled the Lower Limestone and the Lower 

 Freestone of Frocester with the Lower Freestone of the Chel- 

 tenham area. Brodie found a frond of a fern in the Scissum- 

 Beds here, and Dr Wright recorded an exceptionally large 

 number of fossils from the Sands. Wright estimated the 

 thickness of the Sands here at " ? 150 feet," and the blue clay 

 at 80 feet.' 



There are two tolerably satisfactory exposures of the 

 Cephalopod-Bed. The one is by the side of the main-road 

 below the quarry, and may be known as the " Frocester-Hill 

 Section " proper. It is the one which I described in the report 

 of the excursion of the Club to this locality. In that account 

 I recorded such subdivisions of the Bed as were at once 

 apparent on inspection, and it is unnecessary' to say more con- 

 cerning it than has already been published. The other exposure 

 is a little further to the north, high up in the steep hill-side 

 well above the road. It may be called the " Coaley-Peak 

 Section." 



Mr S. S. Buckman has very kindly sent me the following 

 record of the Frocester-Hill roadside-section, which he made 

 on October 24th, 1893, and has compared it with the section 

 at Haresfield. Mr Buckman correlated, in a general way, 

 these two sections as far back as 1888. The following record, 

 however, is brought up to date. Mr Buckman comments 

 in his notes sent to me on the lack of evidence here for 

 deposit of DumortiericB hemera, and this, as he remarks, is the 

 more noticeable when it is remembered how rich is the 

 ammonite-fauna at Pen Wood, only a comparatively short 

 distance further north. 



I Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xii. (1856), p. 304. 



