L. RicliardsGn — Rhcetic Bochs of Waricickshire. 29 



Copt-Heath Outlier, near Knowle. — This outlier is composed 

 of Ehsetic and basal Lower-Lias deposits. It was discovered by 

 Dr. Lloyd, of Leamington, but was first referred to in print by 

 Strickland ^ and noticed in greater detail by Erodie.- 



The Lias beds on the occasion of Brodie's first visit were reached 

 by means of a shaft, but from the rock that was excavated Brodie was 

 enabled to determine the presence of the zone of Ammonites planorhis 

 and of the Saurian and Os^rea-Beds with the usual fossils, but not 

 the Insect Limestone. Traces of the Pteria-contorta-^\\?i\e.s were 

 detected and also fragments of a yellow micaceous sandstone with 

 ' PuUastra arenicola\ the equivalent of the Bone-Bed. Subsequently, 

 in 1874, Brodie recorded that he had actually discovered the Insect 

 Limestone, with insect-remains, but was unable to ascertain if theie 

 were several beds or only one.^ 



At the present time the spoil of Lower-Lias rocks at the old quarry 

 and a great heap of black shale alongside the canal (which was dug- 

 out of it) are all that can be seen, but it is to be hoped that if any 

 building-operations are carried out a sharp watch will be kept for 

 possible exposures. 



Wilmcote. — About fifty j-ears ago (about 1860) Kershaw, of 

 Messrs. Greaves & Kershaw, had a sinking made through the floor 

 of one of the quarries at Wilmcote. The ' Firestones ' were the 

 lowest beds ordinarily exposed in the quarry, but by the sinking the 

 following beds were proved : — * 



J1 



ft. 

 1 



[29. Guinea-Bed. Limestone, hard, shelly . 1 



To p-T" /^^' Shale, hard, dark, slaty . . . .10 

 \2£ 



Gotham I ^^- ^^^1^' B'^"*^^"' clunchy 3 



Beds i^-'-- Estheria-Bed. Marl, fine-grained, greenish ; 



(_ jE. miiiuta, var. brodieana . . .03 



WestburyJ 32-42. Shales, black, with septaria at 19 ft. 9 in. 

 V Beds \. down . . . . • . . . 26 2 



?T.-g. M. "43. Clay, light, soft brown." 



Wright, who was the first to publish details of this section,* gave 

 bed 30 to the " 0. liassica and Saurian Beds ", calling those from 

 31 to 43 inclusive the " Westbury Beds". 



In his Geology of Oxford (1871) Phillips reproduces Wright's 

 record from beds 28 to 43 (inch). But while on p. 105 he groups 

 bed 30 (some " green clunchy clay ") with the llhsetic, on p. 110 he 

 places it above the ' Westbury Shales ', apparently regarding it as 

 Liassic. Tiiere is little doubt that it belongs to the Gotham Beds,- 

 that is, to the Upper Bhsetic. 



Binton. — In a quarrj^ at Binton, now overgrown. Tomes obtained 

 a very interesting assortment of fossils from the Guinea-Bed. It 

 included the tooth of the essentially Ehsetic fish Sargodon iomimSy 

 along with characteristic Lower-Lias fossils. 



^ Memoirs of H. E. Strickland, by Sir WiUiam Jardine, 1858, p. 117. 

 2 Q.J.G.S., vol. xxi, pp. 159-60, 1865 ; Eep. Brit. Assoc, 1864, p. 52. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 748 ; see also TJie Jzirassic Rocks of Britain — Tlie Lias, etc.,. 

 p. 153. 



•* Wright, Q.J.G.S., vol. xvi, pp. 385-7, 1860. 



