98 MR. W. WICKHAM KING ON THE PEEMIAN [Feb. 1 899, 



Old Eed Sandstone, etc and minute fragments of jasper.' He 



pointed out that ' the nearest known masses of similar [Carboni- 

 ferous] rock are in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Clee Hills.' 



Eamsay' collected from conglomerates, included by him in the 

 Middle Permian, at Gatacre HalP and Four Ashes, near Enville, 

 pebbles of 



Eed sandy marl. Quartz. 



Eed sandstone. Black slate. 



Carboniferous Limestone. Hornstone. 



Chert. Eed jasper. 



Silurian limestone, of doubtful age. * Eed granite. 

 Sandstone. Greenstone. 



Quartz-rock. * Felspathic trap. 



* Banded felspathic ash. 



He states that ' the Carboniferous Limestone pebbles by far 

 predominate,' and that ' the nearest Carboniferous Limestone is 

 that of the Titterstone Clee Hills. . . . The Coalbrookdale lime- 

 stone contains chert .... and in the same district occur igneous and 

 quartz-rocks not dissimilar to those found in the Conglomerates. 

 Some of the other pebbles may have come from the Welsh Border 

 near the Longmynd ; but all of them may have been drifted by 

 ordinary marine action.' 



Jukes'^ described shortly the outcrops of these calcareous bands 

 in the South Staffordshire region, but offered no opinion as to 

 their origin. 



Prof. Hull* dealt with the different localities where these calcareous 

 bands occur in the Midland Counties, and gave it as his opinion 

 that ' they are the fragmentary representations of an old shingle- 

 beach, which once stretched at intervals over a large part of Salop 

 and the adjoining parts of England.' 



Mr. G. E. Roberts^ stated that ' rolled fragments of a yellow clayey 

 rock may be met with in these calcareous bands [of South-east Shrop- 

 shire], and the same rock is in situ in the Old Eed Sandstone area 

 of Trimpley, close by.' 



[Mr. Howell ^ states that the Middle Permian in the Warmck- 

 shire Coalfield, an area outside the region now described, contains 

 Carboniferous Limestone-pebbles, and Leicestershire is the nearest 

 locality where that limestone is in place, but they may have been 

 derived from other masses concealed beneath the Trias.] 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xi (1855) p. 189. 



2 The only quarries, either new or old, at or near Gatacre Hall are in the 

 Permian breccia. In my opinion, those rocks marked in the list with an asterisk 

 were from Gatacre Hall, and should be struck out. The quarry at Four 

 Ashes is in the calcareous conglomerate. Eamsay's specimens are now in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. 



3 Mem. Geol. Surv. 1859, ' South Staffs Coalfield,' 2nd ed. pp. 13-15, 177, 

 183 & 184. 



^ Mem. Geol. Surv. 1869, ' Triassic & Permian Eocks of the Midlands,' 

 p. 14, etc. ; & descr. of Horiz. Sect. 2, Sheet 53. 

 ^ 'Eocks of Worcestershire,' 1860, p. 116. 

 « Mem. Geol. Surv. 1859, ' Geol. of Warwickshire Coalfield,' p. 30. 



