PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 



1910 



also in the Lower Freestone. Continuing northwards, the 

 remains of the " Nympsfield Tumulus," opened by the Cottes- 

 wold Club in 1862, will be seen on a slight rise in a field on the 

 left, and then — also on the left — at the very commencement of 

 Buckholt Wood, but invisible from the road, is another large 

 quarry in the Lower Limestone and Lower Freestone. The 

 Pea-Grit here, according to Witchell, " is represented by a 

 freestone bed with ferruginous stains." (" Geology of Stroud," 



P- 43)- 



The wood which extends from the tumulus to the combe 



just before Pen Hill is generally known as " The Long Wood." 



On the 6-inch map it bears the names of Buckholt and Stanley 



Woods ; and it is in the former — in the side of the lane leading 



down to Frocester Cottages — that the Buckholt -Wood Section 



of Mr S. S. Buckman is situated. He described this section in 



1889, but has supplied me with details, which, combined with 



those already recorded, enable me to present the appended 



reading fully up-to-date : 



Section at Buckholt Wood 



Thickness in feet inches 

 Moorei-'Beds i. Brownish limestones with darker-brown 

 grains ; Dumortieria subexcentrica, S.B. 

 (xliv., 7 & 8), D. subundulata (Branco) 

 (xlv., I to 3), D. exacla, S.B. (xlv., 6 

 and 7), D. sparsicosla, Haug. (xlv., 17 

 to 20), D. externicompta (Branco), 

 Cotteswoldia bifax, S. B. (Suppl., p. 

 cxxxvi.) or above, C. pancicostata, 

 S.B., C. particostata, S. B,, C. egena. 

 S.B., C. attrita, S.B. (Suppl., xxiii.. i 

 to 14), C. crinita, S. B., Pleydellia 

 mactra (Dumortier) (xxx., 3 to 7), 

 RhynchoneUa cynocephala (Richards), 

 Terebratula haresfieldensis, Dav., Bel- 

 emnites spp., Pseudomelania procera 

 (Desl.), Tancredia sp. . . . . . . 19 



Dumortieria-'BeAs 2. Yellowish, but more often dark-grey, 

 almost black mudstone, with darli- 

 brown grains. Ammonites scarce and 

 badly preserved; Dum. rhodanica, 

 Haug, Rhyn. cynocephala (Richards), 

 Terebratula haresfieldensis, Dav., and 

 varieties, etc. . . . . . . ..20 



3. Reddish-yellow, somewhat sticky, gritty 



marl; in places numerous Be/ewnjVes o 6 

 Dispartsxim-'Beds 4. Dark-grey ironshot soft stone ; Phlyseo- 

 grammoceras dispansum (Lycett) (com- 

 mon), P. metallarium (Dumortier), 

 (xxxvi., I & 2), Hammatoceras insigne 

 (Schiibler), Astarte sp. . . . . . . 10 



5. Marl 02 



1 



