438 H. Keeping—Bembridge Fossils on Creechbarrow Hill. 
again; it extends from Whitecliff Bay to Headon Hill, by Hordle, 
Lymington, Brockenhurst, and Lyndhurst, and various other places 
in the New Forest; it is then lost until we reach Creechbarrow Hill, 
where we find it again in the disused marl-pits referred to above. 
At Cut-walk Hill, where it was once extensively worked, a part of 
the Middle Headon Series is passed through before reaching the marl. 
At the base we frequently find specimens of the beautiful little Voluta 
geminata and other marine shells. Sir Charles Lyell when a young 
man of about 17, crossing a field with some sportsmen, picked 
up several of those fossils, and about twenty years afterwards sent 
specimens to F. E. Edwards, who was then preparing his Monograph 
on the Eocene and Oligocene Mollusca. I was at that time living at 
Milford, and Mr. Edwards wrote asking if I would try to find the 
locality. This I did, and made a good collection of fossils from Cut- 
walk Hill, one mile and a half north of Lyndhurst. The Rey. O. Fisher 
and the Rey. John Compton, Rector of Lyndhurst, visited the localities 
with me and collected a considerable number of fossils. Sir Charles 
Lyell, Professor Prestwich, and Sir W. H. Flower also visited the 
place for the purpose of studying the formations. ‘The Rey. O. Fisher 
will, I am sure, corroborate my statements respecting the digging of 
the marl and the finding of the fossils at Brockenhurst, Lyndhurst, 
and elsewhere in that district. 
This, I believe, is the first time that the Oligocene formation has 
been shown to occur in the Isle of Purbeck, and it will now be seen 
that it had a much more extensive range than had previously been 
supposed. Beginning at Whitecliff Bay it runs across the larger part 
of the parish of Bembridge, over the Solent to Hordle, Lymington, 
Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, and Lyndhurst, and extends thence to 
Creechbarrow Hill, about 7 miles west of Studland Bay. When 
engaged in making a collection for the Marchioness of Hastings, 
I found at Efford Hill a disused marl-pit quite rich in vertebrate 
remains, and I there collected portions of a crocodile’s jaw with teeth, 
various mammalian remains, with Hmys and Zrionyx. These specimens 
are now preserved in the British Museum (Natural History), South 
Kensington. The marls which are found between the 400 and 500 foot 
contour-lines I regard as Lower Headon, and are the same as those 
which were formerly so extensively worked for manuring the land. 
It can now be seen that if we allow this to be Lower Headon we have 
space enough between it and the top of the hill for the Middle and 
Upper Headon, the Osborne, and the Bembridge Series. By taking the 
average level of the Pipeclay Series, say at the 337 foot contour, we 
shall leave 300 feet to the top of the hill, and allowing 50 feet as the 
thickness from the Pipeclay to the top of the Lower Bagshot Series, 
we shall have 250 feet for the Bracklesham, Barton, and the whole of 
the Oligocene; from which it will be seen that the hill may contain 
all the formations which occur in the corresponding position in the 
Isle of Wight.1. The sand and flints described by Mr. Hudleston, and 
1 The only formations which have not been satisfactorily proved to occur are the 
Bracklesham, the Barton, and the Middle and Upper Headon. I have no doubt 
that those could be found in the hill by the sinking of pits and perhaps of a few 
boreholes. 
