376 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 191 2 



At Tunnel Hill, Upton, about 100 feet O.D., Malvernian 

 and Bunter pebbles occur in the sandy soil. 



To the north of Upton Railway Station, 48 O.D., about 

 half a mile from the river, Drift gravels, with some Lake District 

 and other northern rocks, have been penetrated to a depth of 

 18 feet without reaching the base. 



At Pool House, Upton, a smooth, round felsitic boulder, 

 eleven inches in diameter, probably Arenig, has lately been 

 found in gravel near the river. A block of dark andesitic rock, 

 sixteen inches in diameter, has long been used as a corner- 

 stone at Cowley's Buildings. This is said to have been found 

 in the gravel, but may have been carried as ballast by a boat 

 plying the river.' 



At Picken End, Hanley Castle, about two miles from the 

 river, the gravel contains no flints, and is largely composed of 

 sub-angular fragments of Archaean and Silurian rocks. A few 

 quartzose pebbles occur in the surface-soil within a distance of 

 about one mile from the Malvern Hills, where I have found 

 them in a field on the west of Blackmore Park, at a height of 

 about 270 feet O.D. 



HI. — Marine Shells and Mammalian Remains 



Glacial and recent marine shells are recorded as occurring 

 at several places in the Severn Valley, but are very rarely seen 

 in the pits now open. Only a few small fragments have come 

 under my own observation during a search of many years. 



Lees says that at Northwick, four miles north of Worces- 

 ter, " The sand-pit abounds with fragments of broken-up 

 shells in almost as great quantities as I have seen near Weston- 

 super-Mare and on the sands at Tenby. "^ 



The following marine shells, mostly fragmentary and 

 water- worn, are recorded from deposits lying within a short 

 distance of the Severn, with the exception of those at Beck- 

 ford, which is five miles distant : — 



1 Mackintosh saw " two very decided Eskdale granite pebbles in front of Has&eld Court (a 

 short distance from the river) in fine gravel which had been taken from a low level in the neighbour- 

 hood," but he was led to believe that they were artificially transported. Q.J.G.S., vol. xxxv., 1878, 

 p. 444. 



2 Pictures of Nature around Malvern, p. 257. 



