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Oddington Stone Quarries 



On the hill between Oddington and Stow are several 

 quarries, but only one " in work," and this is situated a little 

 to the south-west of the old windmill. The beds are extra- 

 ordinarily disturbed, and this, combined with quarrying 

 operations, renders it impossible to identify the same section 

 at two consecutive visits if they are separated by any length 

 of time. 



The following record, I have little doubt, sets forth the 

 true sequence of the beds : 



ODDINGTON STONE QUARRY 



Reddish soil with small Northern-Drift Pebbles 

 Limestones, hard, sparsely-oolitic, somewhat flaggy, 



brownish, shelly, Ostrea being the most abundant fossil Several feet 



Thickness in feet inches 

 Rhynchonella-Terebratula-Isastrcea-'Bed.. Greenish yel- 

 low, clayey oolitic marl, passing into almost a shell- 

 bank, and in other places into a shingle. IsastrcBa limi- 

 tata common, Rhyn. concinna auctt., Terebraiula, Os- 

 trea, Chlamys vagans. Exogyra lingulata (Walton MS.), 

 Serpula, etc. Some of the pebbles have oysters and 

 polyzoa attached to them : i foot to i ft. 6 ins . . 13 

 ^{f) Limestones, brownish, oolitic; Ostrea and shell-frag- 

 " c/j ments : about . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 



[ Dirty-green, chocolate and yellow and brown clay, with 

 d to pebbles of dense brown limestone and reddish-brown 



§ "S - sand at the base. Some of the pebbles are in the pro- 

 ^ W cess of being converted into rotten white carbonate of 



V lime. Lignite : up to . . . . . . . . . . 14 



. • . ( Limestone, brownish, oolitic with oysters in places and 

 O ??. 1-1 ^j brownish lignite. Thickness not ascertainable . . 60 + 



Earth" f Clay, blackish, tough .. .. .. .. .. 06 



Limestone, rubbly, coarsely-oolitic to pisolitic, with 

 typical specimens of Ter. globata a.uctt.,Clypeus ploti, 

 Grammatodon hirsonensis , etc. At the top, in places, 

 'SlO I is a finer-grained bed, in which specimens of Perna are 

 O extremely abundant along with a large Camptonectes : 



\ seen, about . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 



There is no doubt about the identity of the Clypeus-Grit '> 

 the " Fullers' Earth " is comparable with that at Great Ris- 

 sington ; and the Chipping-Norton Limestone is unmistakable. 

 How thick it is, Mr Paris and I were unable to ascertain, but 

 in the Rissington-Burford district, it occurs over a considerable 

 area and is readily recognised by its black specks. 



