26o PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 191 1 



While there is a wide difference between the typical 

 examples of each class they frequently merge into each other, 

 and it is impossible to pronounce definitely where the line be- 

 tween them should be drawn. 



(i) Scattered Drift pebbles and artificially-flaked flints. — The 

 pebbles of this class are noticeable for their symmetry, and 

 many approach a spherical shape. The pebbles and flints are 

 widely distributed, and at places, as on Meon Hill, near the Air 

 Balloon Inn (Crickley), Hazlewood Copse Camp (near Nails- 

 worth), the Barton Pits (Cirencester), and near Whitehall Farm 

 (Puckham, near Cheltenham), they occur very abundantly — at 

 the last place suggesting that they formed part of a Drift Depo- 

 sit that had been introduced along the valley of the Colne.' No 

 Drift pebbles have been noticed on the higher portions of 

 Bredon, Oxenton and Alderton Hills ; but a few flaked flints 

 have been found thereon. It is likely that the pebbles and 

 flints described under this head have been introduced by man. 



Drift Pebbles have been recorded, amongst other locaUties, from Saint- 

 bury {800 feet) O.D.*, Willersley Camp (890), Bourton-on-the-Hill (800). 

 Cleeve Cloud (1000), Charlton Abbots (760)*, Whitehall Farm (900)*, 

 Hawling (900), Puckham (900), Leckhampton Hill (960)*, Salterley (850)*, 

 Hartley (915)*, Ullenwood (820-)*, Cowley (755)*, Birdlip (820)*, Stock- 

 well Farm (820)*, Cooper's Hill (800)*, Kimsbury Castle (929), Uley Bury 

 (760)*, Symonds Hall Hill (810)*, etc. 

 At the localities marked with an asterisk flaked flints have also been 

 found. 



(2) Drift pebbles and unflaked flints. — On the eastern side 

 of the Cotteswold Hills and on the high ground above the 

 valleys of the Stour and Evenlode, between 700 and 650 feet 

 above ordnance-datum, there are Drift pebbles, amongst which 

 unflaked flints are rare. These pebbles and flints may be 

 remnants of a drift similar to that which occurs at Tangley, 

 associated with clay on the surface, and in fissures that were 

 visible at the time of my visit. This section is important, and 

 has occasioned some discussion." The flints at Tangley are 

 distinguished from those in other parts of the district by a 

 light yellow colour and patches of black stain. 



Pebbles of brown quartzite, white quartz, flaked and un- 

 flaked flints, and waterworn pebbles of oolite occur in the 

 clayey soil of a field just below the 700-foot contour-line on 



1 C/. H. J. Osborne White, Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xv. (1897), p. 157. 



2 C. Callaway, Geol. Mag. (1905), pp. 216-9, and L. Richardson, Proc. Cottesw. Nat. F.C., vol. xvi., 

 pp. 28-9. 



