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rock so as to be perceptibly curved". He also says that "there are 

 thin courses of sandstone and intervening way boards of green marl 

 m the Red Marl and a thin bed of limy breccia at the base ". 



Due east of Enderby, at Hafford's Brickyard, near Elaby, a section 

 in Eed Marl underlying 6-22 feet of drift, a great part of which is 

 reconstructed Eed Marl, shows green marl and skerry, replaced by 

 marl with red and green spots 1 foot thick, and 5-6 feet of Eed Marl 

 with 2-3 feet of reticulated gj^psum, similar to that at Thurmaston. 

 These beds are similar to those seen in Barrow's Pit (west of the 

 Midland Eailway) at Thurmaston, dry, light-red, very sandj', having 

 a burnt appearance, and very flaky and ferruginous. A cutting in the 

 Great Central Eailway adjacent to this shows Eed Marl 6-10 feet and 

 more compact gypsum 2-3 feet. Elsewhere the Great Central Eailway 

 line between Leicester and Lutterworth shows no sections in the marls. 

 AtBraunstone J. Plant stated in 1856 the Upper Keuper Sandstone 

 was exposed in the Braunstone Turnpike Eoad with a dip of 3 degrees 

 to the east. It has recentlj^ been exposed in that direction in shallow 

 excavations at Westcotes and towards Braunstone near the footpath 

 to the village across the fields from E'arborough Eoad, but it is not 

 exposed at present near the main turnpike road. J. Plant in 1858 

 also said " the strata which form the ridge of land on the west side of 

 the valley running by Enderby, Braunstone, Eowley Fields, and Dane 

 Hills wei'e once connected with similar strata upon the opposite 

 ridge on the east of the same valley". The observations of Browne 

 (1893) and later observers have shown this view to be erroneous. 

 They are absent in the Crown Hill boring. South of the West Bridge 

 line, the Upper Keuper Sandstone is traceable between Braunstone 

 and the Hinckley Eoad at a number of points and crops out to the 

 south of the latter at several places, being well exposed in the cutting, 

 and sweeps round with a sinuous outcrop in the direction of Narborough 

 Eoad. Numerous sections to the east show that it extends in the 

 direction of Aylestone, but, as demonstrated by Browne in his 

 exhaustive memoir upon the geology of the Borough of Leicester, it 

 thins out and is ultimately lost. 



Selecting one of these where an interesting fauna was observed 

 between Norman Eoad and Aylestone Mill, on the Aylestone Eoad, 

 we cannot do better than quote Browne's remarks : " The hill 

 between these two points is upheld by two or more thick beds of hard 

 and compact Upper Keuper Sandstone with intercalations of hard 

 grey marls (skerries), the lowest member being Upper Keuper Eed 

 and Grey Marls. South of Norman Eoad the sandstone has thinned 

 out at 5 feet below the surface, and is, between that road and the 

 preceding section [Granby Eoad], replaced by pieces of more impure 

 sandstone." The section is 9-25 feet in thickness, and the beds dip 

 to the river at 3 degrees. 



The fossils found in the gritty sandstone between the marls were — 



Estheria ininuta. 



Acrodtis keuperinus (teeth). 



Colobodus frequens (scales) | then new to 



Gyrolepis quenstedti (scales) j Britain. 



Fish-scales. 



Amphibia (bones). 



