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small rising ground, which forms a distinct little ridge about 80 yards 

 across and 200 or 300 long, sloping down gently on every side. The 

 rock is a pale yellow or brown sandstone, in some places nearly white 

 and purely quartzose, iu others very ferruginous, marked by concen- 

 tric rings of a dark brown colour, and containing little ochrey 

 nodules. It had also small bands of highly calcareous grit, and some 

 of the blocks had a central nucleus of white arenaceous limestone. 

 It was traversed by joints in all directions, splitting it into vcrj'- 

 sharply angular fragments ; and I was not able to detect the bedding 

 with sufficient accuracy to state its dip, owing to the smallness of 

 the portion we were able to expose. Some parts of it were crowded 

 with fossils, which Mr. Salter has kindly determined for me. 



Fossils of the Upper Caradoc Sandstone collected near Skiistoke 

 Lodge, Great Barr, Walsall, April 1853. 

 Trilobites 

 Encrinurns punctatus 4 



Phacops caudatus 1 



Stokesii 1 



truncato-caudatus ? 1 



Brachiopods. 



Clionetes lata (probably) 1 



Strophomena compressa 2 



Atrypa reticularis 6 



Rhynchonella — two plaited species. 8 



Rhynchonella — small smooth species 50 



— '— Wilsoni 20 



Pentamerus liratus ? 2 



Pterinea 1 



Crinoidea. 



Periechocrinus moniliformis 30 



Bryozoa. 

 Fenestella (with close meshes) .... 1 

 [J. W. S.] 



Fragments of the sandstone were strewed over the upper part of the 

 field near the quarry, but over the lower portion, as well as in the 

 ditches on the other sides of the ridge, were found many fragments of 

 limestone slabs with the ordinary Wenlock fossils in great abundance. 

 I believe, therefore, that the Hay Head or Barr limestone (which is 

 probably the same as the Woolhope) will be found to wrap round 

 the foot of the ridge. The Permian boundary here makes a slight 

 bend round the eastern side of the sandstone ridge. 



The second locality is a little gully, just east of the house called 

 Daifodilly, at Hay Head. The bank is never more than 3 feet in 

 height, and it is much broken ; Ave found in it, however, within the 

 space of 30 or 40 yards, Wenlock shale and slabs of limestone on 

 the west, just by the old quarries of the Hay Head limestone. East 

 of this, for about 10 yards, there was coal-measure shale, with a bed 

 of good coal nearly 2 feet thick, apparently in a nearly horizontal 

 position ; east of that again, for .5 or 6 yards, was a sandstone, exactly 

 similar to that near Shustoke Lodge in lithological character, with 

 similar calcareous portions, but, so far as we could determine, after 

 an hour's hammering, destitute of fossils ; and immediately east of 

 that, dark red brown marls and shaly sandstone, belonging to the 

 Permian rocks. In the next field to the east were the mounds of 

 two old shafts in which coal-measures were said to have been reached 

 at no great depth. At the Three Crowns Inn, 150 yards to the 

 north, a two-foot coal had recently been found in sinking a well, 

 dipping gently to the east. I believe these coal-measures to be 



