370 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 191 2 



Gravels containing Drift pebbles and flints occur at 

 Shutonger, 98 O.D., Tewkesbury, 40 O.D., Apperley, 137 O.D., 

 Wainlode, 265 O.D., and Gloucester, 45 O.D. Large and small 

 rounded Bunter pebbles are found in many places at the base 

 of the river silts, as at Tewkesbury, Haw Bridge, Alney Island, 

 and Gloucester. 



It is important to note that the northern rocks usually 

 recognized as transported by land-ice from the Arenig Moun- 

 tains, the Lake District, and the South of Scotland are not 

 found in the gravels capping the low hills near the Severn, 

 except at Apperley, 100 feet above the river, where Symonds 

 and Mackintosh found " Shap and Criffel granites, toadstone 

 from Dudley, Millstone Grit, and Cardington Grit from the 

 Church Stretton country.'" In the terrace-deposits these 

 rocks occur at elevations of about 50 feet above the stream. 



Some of the boulders are still preserved at Apperley by 

 Mr. Algernon Strickland, whom I have to thank for kind 

 assistance on the occasion of my visit. 



The Cheltenham Sands. — The deposits that I have 

 elsewhere so designated,^ because they reach their greatest 

 development in and around Cheltenham, occur at intervals on 

 the eastern side of the Severn Plain, and generally near the 

 flanks of the Cotteswolds, from Mickleton to the Frome Valley, 

 near Stroud, and probably still further south. Mr. Charles 

 Upton informs me that there is none of this sand in the Stroud 

 Valley above an elevation of about 150 feet O.D. 



A somewhat similar sand is also interstratified with 

 gravels on the western side of the Severn at Upton-on-Severn 

 and Highnam. 



The Cheltenham Sands rest immediately upon the Lias, 

 and underlie the surface soil. They are much denuded and 

 appear to be remnants of more widely distributed beds, and 

 are cut through by small streams flowing from the hills, as at 

 Moorend, Charlton Kings, where the brook has made a way 

 to the Lower Lias through about 30 feet of the sand. The 



1 Severn Straits, pp. 31-2 ; Mackintosh, Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxv., 1878, p. 443. 



2 Proceedings, Cott, N.F.C., vol. xvii., p. 258. 



