28 L. J. Wills—Fossiliferous Keuper at Bromsgrove. 
would take the horizon of the Lias beds exposed at Stoke Goldington 
to a level of 188—86 = 152 feet O.D., which is 11 feet below river 
level, so obviously any sections of Upper Lias exposed between Stoke 
Goldington and Olney would consist of higher and higher beds as one 
approached the latter place, and this may easily in part account for 
Mr. Woodward’s description of the clay beds in this area not agreeing 
with my own, though of course he also saw some Upper Estuarine 
exposures. 
I quite believe that the uppermost clay beds towards Olney, here 
described as Upper Lias, may well represent, in time, the Northampton 
Sand, as I have previously suggested that the highly pyritous clays do 
at Grafton Regis, some few miles to the west.? 
No unconformity between the Lias and Oolites in the area under 
consideration has been actually detected, and with the above 
explanations one is not needed; moreover, it would be somewhat 
difficult to account for if it occurred in an area which was sinking 
throughout the later Liassic and the whole of the remainder of the 
Jurassic period; as is evidenced by the formations which are absent as 
well as those present in districts further to the south and south-east, 
indicated by the deep borings, ete. 
VITI.—Ow some Fossttirerous Kruezr Rocks ar BromseRovEe 
( W oRCESTERSHIRE). 
By L. J. Writs, B.A., King’s College, Cambridge. 
HE counties of Warwick and Worcester have yielded the majority 
of Keuper fossils recorded from England. ‘he history of their 
discovery commenced about seventy years ago with a paper by 
Murchison and Strickland,? where there is a description of the area. 
They distinguished two divisions, the lower of which they identified 
as Bunter, chiefly on the evidence cf a plant, Hehinostachys oblongus, 
Brongn. This division was found to be, for the most part, composed 
of sandstones, and contained in Worcestershire plant remains and in 
Warwickshire bones and teeth. The localities where fossils were found 
were Ombersley, Hadley, Elmley Lovett, all on the west side of the 
Droitwich basin, Bromsgrove on the east of it, and in the Warwick 
district. 
Their upper division was composed of marls with intercalated 
sandstones in some places. This they referred to the Keuper. They 
held that the sandstones of Burge Hill, Pendock, Inkberrow, and 
Shrewley, although very scattered, represented a definite horizon in 
the marls. They recorded fossils from these localities. 
Professor Hull,* in 1869, corrected the nomenclature and recognised 
an unconformity between the true Bunter and Keuper in England in 
the place of the Muschelkalk. His divisions of the Lower Keuper 
(Murchison and Strickland’s Bunter) are :— 
1 “« Junction Beds of the Upper Lias and Inferior Oolite in Northamptonshire ” :. 
Journ. Northants Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. xii (No. 94, June, 1903), pp. 68-69. ; 
2 Murchison & Strickland: Trans. Geol. Soc., ser. 11, vol. v (1837), p. 331. 
3 E. Hull, ‘‘ Permian and Triassic Rocks of the Midlands’’: Mem. Geol. Surv., 
1869. 
