VOL. XVII. 



X) INFERIOR OOLITE-SOUTH COTTESVVOLDS 127 



The position of the Cephalopod-Bed exposure will be 

 seen upon reference to the map (text-fig. 4). 



Between Selsley HiU and Nailsworth two long valleys run 

 westwards into the hill-mass. 



The first is the Woodchester Valley. There are no ex- 

 posures of note in it now. but in times past 



..a landslip on the eastern side of the Woodch^^^^^^^^^ 



Perna rugosa, and Turbo ^'^Z'/'^"^.^';^^ J^'^^echnens of Posidonia 



^Ji!.S»™f B^r A°riri S.«y <o™a i. .he 

 same position in France and Germany. 

 Also a quarry in the building freestones " has produced 

 many large testacea. including Trichites nodosus, Lye. and 

 Perna quadrata, Sow 



In the next valley, to the south, in " a deep lane cutting 

 ad3omJgNaILorth.'ontheway^ 



Lvcett found at the base of the Cotteswold Sands (to be exact, 

 a^ew feet above the blue Upper-Lias clay) a very fossihferou 

 Ld apparently of variabiHs date. It yielded a number of 

 fofslls Tthat'time new to science and ^f^^^^J^ 

 described and named by Wright3 and Lycett.3 At the present 

 time the road-cutting is quite overgrown, and nothing more 

 th^n that it is in the bottom-portion of the Sands can be made 

 out. 



Mr S S. Buckman, F.G.S., informs me that ''many 

 specimens of Hildoceras semipolitum, S. Buckna., came from a 

 bluish sandy bed exposed in an excavation for the gasholder 

 at Nailsworth. 



The Freestones have been worked at a number of places 

 up the Horsley Valley ; but the sections call for no particular 

 comment. 



1 Lycett, "Cotteswold Hills" (1857), p. 23. 



2 Ibid., pp. 43-44- , _ ...■ ^„,,i^ \vr and Protocardia Oppeli (Wr.) came from "the 



3 The type-specmens of ^-^r^"^* *!^f,I'f,ere (Q J G.S., vol. xii. (1856), pp. 324-325) as well as 

 fossiliferous nodules at the base o^'he Sands ^«^« ^V J "/ ^ ^nd p. 123)- 



that of Natica oppeknsis. Lycett (" Cotteswold HUls, pi. i- ng. 4. auu y 



