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discovered in the fields to the south-west of Middlemill between the 

 stream and the Gloucester road ; but Llandovery debris may be 

 found at several points, and at one spot a quarter of a mile south 

 of Middlemill Farm contained Lindstroemia sp., Atrypa reticularis, 

 and Bliynclionella Bavidsoni. The Llandovery rocks form a rather 

 strongly- marked terrace (corresponding to the 50- foot contour-line), 

 overlooking the Little Avon from Middlemill past Stone for a distance 

 of at least half a mile. South of the Gloucester road they have not 

 been found in situ, although at one point, about 250 yards west- 

 south-west of Heathermead,an old overgrown working yielded blocks 

 containing Lindstroemia sp. and Stricklandinia lirata. To the north 

 of the road there is a section in the bed of a streamlet, some 150 yards 

 north-west of ' The Elms.' About 8 feet of hard red unfossiliferous 

 sandstone, with bands of sandy limestone crowded with brachiopods, 

 is here seen dipping south-westwards at 25°. We found at this 

 place Atrypa reticidaris, Stricklandinia sp., and Lindstroemia hiyia. 

 Abundant debris thrown out in deepening a ditch at ' The Elms ' 

 contained Coelospira hemispTierica, Stricklandinia lirata (?), and 

 Orthis polygramma (?). There is an overgrown working in similar 

 material, in a little copse farther north, and much debris is 

 scattered about. 



The most fossiliferous locality in this part of the area is at 

 Woodford Hill, on the right bank of the stream, where the rock 

 forms a terrace comparable to that overlooking the stream on the 

 left. There is a small quarry at a point about 300 yards due west 

 of Matford Earm, and between this point and the old trap-quarry 

 by the high road big blocks of very fossiliferous calcareous sand- 

 stone occur in abundance. We found here the following fossils : — 



Horiostoma globosum. 

 Trochonema sp, 

 Sinrifer sp. 

 Atrypa reticidaris. 

 Meristina sp. 

 Stricklandinia lens. 



Stricklandinia lirata. 

 Orthis elegantula. 

 Orthis reversa (?). 

 Lindstroemia subduplicata, 

 var. crenidata. 



Llandovery rocks were formerly exposed north of the trap, in 

 the road opposite the Eox Inn. ^Nothing is now to be seen in 

 situ, but from debris found among the bushes we obtained Stro- 

 johomena sp., Orthis sp., Lindstroemia sp., and Favosites Forbesi. 



All these exposures to the east of the stream are in rocks which 

 apparently underlie the trap-band (upper), and are therefore on 

 the same horizon as those of Damery and Avening Green. 



The Sedgwick Museum contains a number of fossils from Wood- 

 ford and Woodford Green. Many of these were doubtless derived 

 from the now completely-overgrown road-section near the Eox Inn. 

 The only other exposure with which we have met in this region is 

 at an old quarry, about half a mile north-west of Woodford. With 

 the help of Mr. E. Peter of Berkeley, this has been identified 

 as Ponting's Quarry, shown in Buckland & Conybeare's map. 

 The rock here is a red, somewhat calcareous sandstone, with 

 bands of hard white grit and shaly partings. Crinoid stem-joints 



