H. Keeping—Bembridge Fossils on Creechbarrow Hill. 437 
I should carry out a further examination of the area at a more 
convenient season. This I have done, and I now offer the results of 
my further researches. 
After getting permission from the owner of the land, G. W. 
Bond, Esq., and his tenant, Mr. Trent, I commenced by making an 
opening on the south side, and also spent some time in the pit which 
Mr. Hudleston had made, but I found only the same fossils as on my 
last visit. Feeling sure that the limestone must be found at a lower 
level I opened another pit, about 12 feet long, at the base of the 
limestone. At one end of this pit I found a reddish marl called by 
the workmen Cherry Marl, which I refer to the Osborne formation. 
Few or no fossils are ever found in this marl. At the end nearest the 
top of the hill we came on the base of the limestone resting on the 
marls. I recognized the section as exactly similar to that in which 
the vertebrate remains were found in the Isle of Wight, and examined 
it carefully. In about ten or twelve minutes I found part of the tooth 
of a Paleotherium. Unfortunately I had only about a yard of this 
bed exposed, but I feel sure from the character of the deposit that 
more mammalian remains might be obtained here. I then opened 
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Diagram Section showing the relation of the Creechbarrow Limestone to the under- 
lying series : a, Bembridge Limestone; 4, Osborne Series; ce, Upper Headon 
Series ; d, Middle ditto ; e, Lower ditto ; f, Sands; g, Barton Beds; #, Brackles- 
ham Beds with lignite; ¢, Bagshot Beds with pipeclay; j, London Clay ; 
k, Woolwich and Reading Beds ; 7, Chalk. 
another pit on the north side of the limestone, and after reaching 
a depth of about 7 feet I found what I had been looking for, namely, 
beds of limestone which I would refer to a lower horizon in the 
Bembridge Series. These yielded good results, as I obtained from 
them Bulimus (two species), Cyclotus (two species), Helix (two species), 
Clausilia (two species), Achatina costellata, and the so-called eggs of 
Bulimus: altogether about twenty species, some of which have not 
yet been determined. The marls in the old excavations, still to be 
seen some way down the hill-side, which were explained by 
Mr. Hudleston as due to the crumbling away or waste of the lime- 
stone from the top of the hill, I believe are part of the Lower Headon 
Series, from which marl was formerly dug for manuring the land. 
A good dressing of this was supposed to last from seven to ten years. 
The marl of Creechbarrow is, however, much more sandy than any 
I have seen in the corresponding beds elsewhere. When I was a boy 
of seven or eight years of age I should say there could not have been 
less than fifty men employed at this work. I have many times 
watched them digging, and they occasionally turned up portions of 
the freshwater and mud tortoises Zrionyx and Emys. 
This marl has an extensive range and may some time be of use 
