PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 



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Quarry number 27 is also in the Chipping-Norton Lime- 



stone. 



Great Tew. — This section is an important one (28) and 

 should be visited by anyone working the district. 



3&4- 



5 to II 



13- 

 14. 



16. 



No. 28. QUARRY AT GREAT TEW 



Thickness in feet ina 

 Limestone, pale-brown, hard, rubbly : seen (in 



the eastern side of the quarry) . . . . 19 



Limestone, similar, rubbly mixed with sand, in 



the southern face becoming a white and yellow 



sand with the " shelly-bed " about the middle 4 6 



r Limestone, hard, massive, with an extremely 



J shelly bed (with Trigonics, Lucince, etc.) joined 



\ on to the bottom limestone . . . . . 32 



Limestone, sandy, rubbly, mixed with sand . . 16 

 Limestone, massive, sandy, in three layers, ferru- 

 ginous and shelly. Pebbles waterworn, bored 

 by Lithophagi and with oysters on them, are em- 

 bedded in the top-portion of the bed, which has 

 a very irregular nether surface . . . . . . 23 



Sand, brown and grey-streaked . . . . . . o 10 



Hard calcareous sand-rock passing into soft 



brown sand . . . . . . . . 09 



Brown sandy rock ; Syncydonema demissutn 



auctt. . . . . . . . . . . . . 07 



Somewhat hard, bluish-grey centred shelly sandy 



rock : seen . . . . . . . . . . 04 



Tomes records Cryptoccenia luciensis E. & H. and Isastraea 

 beesleyi Tomes, from Great Tew.' They would come from 

 higher beds than any now exposed in this quarry, the main 

 feature of which is the tendency for the beds above 12 to become 

 rubbly and sandy, and for those below (which all contain plant- 

 remains in the form of black lignite with occasional fern-fronds) 

 to become noticeable soft brown sand. 



Bell-Inn Quarry. — This quarry (29) is fast becoming 

 filled up with refuse. This is unfortunate, for some of the 

 beds are extraordinarily fossiliferous and the majority of the 

 specimens excellently preserved. 



Mr Walford has given a brief record of this section,^ 

 which has otherwise escaped attention. 



1 Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. vi., pt. 4 (1879), pp. 157 and 160. 



2 " On Some New Oolitic Strata in North Oxfordshire " (1906), pp. 24-25. 



