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The same junction is also seen in a small quarry on the west side 

 of Stutcombe Bottom, and again by the side of the path 300 yards 

 north of Newcombe Wood Dairy. The lower chalk is exposed in 

 several places, and is mostly a firm blocky greyish-white chalk without 

 anything that can be called chalk marl in the lower part. There are few 

 fossils in it, but it sometimes contains siliceous concretions like flints. 

 At or near the top there is generally a bed of soft grey marl which con- 

 tains Belemnitella plena, and hence is known as Belemnite marl. 

 Whether this is exposed near Evershot I do not know. Above this marl 

 the chalk is harder, and at a varying distance passes up into hard 

 nodular rocky chalk, which seems to be the equivalent of the Mel- 

 bourn Rock of more northern counties, and forms the base of the 

 middle chalk. Rock of this nature is said to occur at the top of the 

 road cutting about half-a-mile north of Evershot station. On the 

 same hill and towards Bubb Down there are small patches of flint 

 gravel and clay with flints, which are interesting as being remnants 

 of the old plateau out of which all the existing physical features of the 

 county have been carved by the erosive action of rain, frost, and running 

 water. 



On leaving the Spring Pond Mr, E. CuNNiNGTON read some notes on 

 the neighbourhood and said that in the south-west corner of the park 

 was a curious depression, where a stream of water was thrown out at the 

 base of the greensand. It was shut in on two sides by abruptly-rising 

 ground composed of the sand and chalk above, which seemed to have been 

 constantly shaling off and filling the depression for ages past. He found 

 amongst the debris a tooth of a horse and a very old celt, which he 

 produced for inspection. The ground had since been altered and a pond 

 made there. From the park on the south might be seen the Castle Hill, 

 rising from the centre of one of Nature's finest amphitheatres, the view 

 from which was enchanting. From small excavations made on the hill and 

 from enquiries, he was led to believe that a Norman castle crowned the 

 apex of the hill. It was built of forest marble from a quarry near, and he 

 was informed that a former lord of the manor took the whole of the 

 ruins to build a farmhouse near. Several coins were found, but he had 

 not been able to trace them. At Rampisham, about a mile and a-half 

 from Evershot, a Roman tesselated pavement was found on the common 

 in 1799. " When discovered it was in a very perfect state, but it was 

 afterwards broken by ignorant neighbours from an idea that treasure 

 lay concealed beneath it." In Benville Lane in the same parish he 

 found in one of the " pot holes " the large heavy flint implement which 

 he brought for their inspection. 



