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Oatley Hill.— a little over a mile south-south-west of the 

 Sharp's Hill Quarry is Oatley Hill or " Otley Hill," as it is 

 more generally known amongst geologists (No. 4). 



The locality has long been famous as an interestmg col- 

 lecting-ground, and Prof. J. W. Judd, Mr E. A. Walford and 

 others have obtained and listed therefrom a considerable 

 number of specimens. Now, however, the classic section is 

 quite overgrown, and the highest beds at present visible are 

 on the same stratigraphical horizon as those seen m the 

 quarry (No. 5), near Oatley-HiU Farm. However, it is easy 

 to see from the lists of fossils given by Judd^ and Walford^ 

 that the Chipping-Norton Limestone, Trigonia-signata-Bed 

 and Hook-Norton Beds, part of the Pea-Grit-Series equivalent 

 and Scissuni-Beds are represented. Mr H. B. Woodward 

 has hsted a few of the more noteworthy fossils from the 

 "lower beds" of Oatley Hill,^ and of them it may be 

 remarked that the Montlivaltia lens is probably the Scissum- 

 Bed variety, which is so commonly associated with Rhyn. 

 cynocephala and Pholadomya fidicula in the Cotteswold Hills, 

 as it is here, also at Oatley Hill ; the Acrosalenia is probably 

 the A. lycetti, which at the Edge, near Painswick,* occurs abun- 

 dantly in association with huge specimens of Nautilus ; while 

 , Nerincsa cingenda and N. pisolitica, are common in the Dogger 

 of Blea Wyke and in the top-portion of the Pea-Grit^ in the 

 Cotteswold Hills respectively. 



Oatley-Hill-Farm Quarry.— In a field belonging to 

 Oatley-HiU Farm is a quarry (5) in which about 8 feet of 

 Chipping-Norton Limestone is exposed. The beds are brown and 

 sandy, and give rise to a verysandy soil. They contain numerous 

 pieces'of brown hgnite, occasional specimens of Lima? cardti- 

 formis (Sow.), Lucina (fairly common) ; whilst on certain of 

 the weathered slabs can be distinguished fragments of an Acan- 

 thothyris, Gervillia, Ostrea, Syncyclonenia, Serpula and Polyzoa. 

 There also appears to be evidence of Mr Walford's Trigonia- 

 signata-Bed, for certain pieces of shelly hmestone that were 

 lying about contained numerous specimens of TrigonicB, Ostrece 

 and a large Camptonectes lens (Sow.). 



I "The Geology of Rutland, etc." (1875), pp. 21-23. Mem. Geol. Surv. 

 \ «juS l^^;^r^^.:^^b^^^^o^^<^ (Vorksh.re excepted,," 

 vol. iv. (1894), p. 157- Mem. Geol. Sury. . ^ , „. , 



4 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. xvi., pt. 2 1908), p. 16+ 



5 Blatter collected a specimen of Terebratula simplex, J. Buckman, at Oatley Hill. 



