Vol. 68.'] PALEONTOLOGY OF THE WARWICKSHIRE COALEIELD. 599 



Section in the HAUNcnwooD Brick Company's Clay-pit at Heath End, 



ClIILVERS COTON. 



Thickness in feet. 

 Soil, sand and pebbles 1 



Hauncliwood 1 Soft yellow sandstone 12 



bandstone. J '' 



f Espley Rock 1 



j Pnrpie and grey clay 12 



Calcareous, laminated, cream-coloured shale. 4 



I Yellow massive sandstone 4 



j Eed clay 4 



Calcareous, laminated, cream-coloured shale. 7 



Nuneaton j Purple marl 9 



Clays. { Grrey marl 6 



j Red marl 14 



I Purple marl 9 



I Fireclay 6 



j Breccia in two beds, from feet up to 8 



[Measures 1 . ,1 n f 30 



I Stone : ? Espley Rock } ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^'^^ (4 



Total 131 



Dip = about 15'^ westwards. 



Iq the foregoing section the junction of the iN'uneaton Clays with 

 the overlying sub-group of the Haanchwood Sandstones is clearly 

 seen ; the latter are well exposed in the adjoining cutting of the 

 London & jN"orth- Western Railway (Griff Branch). 



At Messrs. Stanley's adjacent brick-pit, at Griff, near Chilvers 

 Coton, an impersistent band of ironstone, an inch thick, makes 

 its appearance immediately above the breccia. Fossil plants have 

 been obtained from this ironstone, and also from the purple shales 

 and clays with which it is interbedded. These plants, although 

 fragmentary, are very abundant; but they appear to consist ex- 

 clusively of leaves of Cordaites principalis (Germar), together with 

 Equisetaceous pith-casts. 



The section of this pit is as follows : — 



Section in Messrs. Stanley's Brick-pit at Griff, Nuneaton. 



Thickness in feet. 



f'Red and yellow clay with drift-pebbles 3 



05 Laminated, calcareous, cream-coloured shale with ironstone 



^ I nodules 5 



p^ j Thinly-bedded, yellow, micaceous sandstone 3 



^ ! Grrey shales 8 



o \ Red and green, unstratified, mottled marls 10 



"S j Lumpy green gritty marl, ferruginous grit with pebbles of 

 g ! ba3matite, and green and purple shale containing a bed of 



s I ironstone 1 inch thick 8 



^ ! Hard green breccia with partings of green marl 5 



1^ Fine-grained green sandstone or Espley Rock (seen in the well) 15 



Total 57 



At the north-western end of the line of clay-pits in the 

 Nuneaton Clays at Haunchwood, near Stockingford, there is an 



