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The Nailsworth and Rodborough-Hill Area. 



On the Bath Road, about half-a-mile to the south of 

 Nailsworth, is a large disused quarry, affording a view of these 



beds : 



Bath-Road Quarry, Nailsworth 



Thickness in feet inches 

 II. White Oolite I . Limestones, well oolitic, much broken 

 up, but forming, nevertheless, a notice- 

 able capping to the section ; Rhyn- 

 chonella sp., and Terebrahda globata, 

 auctt., rare : seen .. .. ..50 



III. Clypeus-Grit 2. Limestone, hard, lumpy : usual fossils : 



average . . . . . . . . ..08 



3. " Marl " ; Ter. globata, auctt., common o i 



4. Limestone, regular bed, but rarely fos- 



siliferous . . . . . . ..07 



5. " Shale," or calcite . . . . ..01 



6. Limestone, rubbly, especially at the 



base, where the usual pisolites arc nu- 

 merous; large specimens of Ter. globata, 

 auctt., Pleuromya Goldfussi (Lycett), 

 Limatula gibbosa (Sow.), Ceromya 

 striata (Sow.), Gresslya, etc. : 10 ins. to 

 I ft. 8 ins. . . . . . . ..010 



7. Limestone, rubbly at the top and bot- 



tom ; Clypeus Ploti, Klein, Pholadomya 

 sp. and Nerincea Gttisei, Witchell, Ter. 

 globata, a.uctt., etc. .. .. . . 3 10 



8. Limestone, hard, few fossils . . ..11 



9. Shale . . . . . . . . ..01 



Non-sequence. Beds IV. &• V. wanting 



VI. Upper 10. Ragstone, very shelly, in three beds ; 



Trigonia-Grit usual fossils . . . . . . ..60 



Non-sequence. Beds VII. to XXI. {incl.) 

 wanting 

 XXII. Lower Free- 11. Limestone, top-bed harder than the 



stone rest, and well bored : seen .. . . 15 o 



It is easy to see in the capping limestones the equivalent 

 of the Anabacia-Limestones, and it is not uninteresting to find 

 them so well marked thus far north. 



A somewhat similar section is to be seen a little over 

 a quarter of a mile to the north-north-east (by the side of the 

 Tetbury Lane) ; but the White Oolite (seen 3 feet 6 inches), 

 Clypeus-Grit (8 ft. 2 ins.), and Upper Tngonia-Ght (5 ft. 

 4 ins.), are all more fossiliferous. The last-named subdivision 

 rests upon the Lower Freestone, of which about 10 feet is seen. 

 I think the Freestone here and at the Bath-Road Quarry is all 

 Lower Freestone, because of the absence of NenncecB, its 

 massiveness, and suitability for working right up to the 

 base of the "Grit." 



