438 



W. jr. KhHj 6; jr. J. Lou-is- 



Mr. J. Beete Jukes, in 1859, thought that tlie Old Red Sandstone, 

 Carboniferous Limestone, and Millstone Grit were not laid down in 

 South Staffordshire.^ It is, however, within the knowledge of one 

 of us that lie was afterwards shown, in 1866 or 1867, some rocks like 

 Old ]{.ed Sandstone, and a limestone containing Pterygotus and 

 Lingula cornea (?), found beneath the Coal-measures of South 

 Staffordshire, at the bottom of the Wassell Grove Pits, Hagley, 

 3 miles south of Saltwells.- Afterwards at the Manor Pit, 



WOLVEIRHAMPTON 



Chillrnglon Tilt 



UDLEY. 



5T0URBRIDCE 



B!ojck heath 

 flit 



ALE50WEN 



Manor 



Fig. 1. Map of area referred to in this paper. Scale = 3 miles to 1 inch. 



' South Staffs. Coal-field, 2nd ed., pp. xii, 134 (Mem. Geol. Surv.). Since 

 then Carboniferous Limestone and Millstone Grit have been found underground 

 at the northern end of the coal-field (Q.J.G.S., vol. Ixii, p. 523, 1906, 

 and Trans, of North Staffs. Club, 1908-4, p. 128; cf. Q.J.G.S., vol. Iv, 

 pp. 126-7, 1899. 



- Dudley Guardian of June 22, 1867. Mr. King has found on this pit 

 mound pieces of the Temeside Bone-bed with L. cornea, Otwhus, &n^ 

 Eurypteridae, green shales covered with black markings of Eurypteridse, and 

 red and purple micaceous sandstones. 



