152 E. C. Martin— New Red Graveh of the Tiverton District. 



1. District North- West of Tiverton. 



The valley between Washfiekl and Calverleigli is filled with the 

 gravels as far west as Holmead. Two outlying patclies of gravel 

 occur north-west of Stoodleigh. 



In a section about a quarter of a mile north-west of Washfield Church, 

 on the Stoodleigh Road, the gravels are seen underlying the trap. 

 Fragments of soft red sandstone containing crinoid joints, Spirifer 

 Verneuili, Murch., and Rhynchonella Partridgice, AVhidborne,^ were 

 found about three feet below the trap. Fossiliferous fragments were 

 also detected in the gravel-pits on Hensleigh Hill and behind the 

 Roman Catholic Chapel, Tiverton, and in the road section at Leigh 

 Barton, near Loxbear. 



In a small gravel-pit on the Templeton Road, three-quarters of a mile 

 west of Calverleigh, at an elevation of 800 feet, the following fossils 

 were found in pieces of dark red sandstone and grit : — 



Phacops latifrons, Bronn (two heads Orthis interlineata, Sow. 



and oue tail). Tentaculiies conieiis, F. A. Romer. 



Spirifer Veriieuili, Murch. Stropholosia procltictoides, Murch., sp. 



Rhynchonella Partridgice, Whidb. Crinoid joints. 



The gravels are well exposed at Washfield Weir, by the Exe, and 

 contain fossiliferous fragments. In the pebble bed in the Exe below 

 the weir (the pebbles composing which seem to have been washed 

 out of the cliff or gravel above the Aveir) fragments of hard grit with 

 the following fossils were found : — 



Spirifer Vcrneuili, Murch. Orthis interlineata, Sow. 



S. Urii, Fleming. ? Ctenodonta lirata, Phil., sp. 



Productus prcelougns, Sow. ? tSangiiinolites mimiis, Whidb. 



Rhynchonella Partridgice, Whidb. Adelocrinus hystrix, Phil. 



The Stoodleigh Outliers. 



Two outliers of the New Red gravels occur in Stoodleigh parish. 

 The first caps the hill north of Stoodleigh village, and can be examined 

 in a large gravel-pit about half a mile north-west of Stoodleigh 

 Church, 936 feet above sea-level. The deposit in this pit is very 

 coarse, and no fossiliferous pieces were detected there. The second 

 outlier covers a much larger area in the north-west part of Stoodleigh 

 parish. It is interesting as being the last as well as the highest 

 patch of the gravels in this direction. . It can be examined in a 

 gravel-pit at Stoodleigh Beacon, 980 feet above sea-level. Fragments 

 of yellowish-red grit found in this pit contained Spirifer Vernetiili, 

 Murch., FenesteUa pleheia, M'Coy, Loxonema {J.) sp., and Crinoids. 



In the lane east of Stoodleigh Beacon trap occurs, and a fragment 

 containing Naticopsis Hallii, Whidb., was found. 



' Phillips, in his " Palffiozoic Fossils of Devon, Cornwall, and West Somerset," 

 refers this very common ' Rhynchonella ' to his Carboniferous species Rhynchonella 

 pleurodon. Whidborne ("Devonian Fauna of the South of England," vol. iii) 

 thinks that the Devonian species is specifically distinct, and has named it 

 Rhynchonella [Camarotcechia) Partridgice, Whidb. 



