256 Rev. James Yates on the Structure of the 



trance into a tunnel of the canal^ and also in the road, which leads through 

 the hamlet of Burcot. Its general appearance corresponds with that of the 

 red sandstone already described at Llanvorda, Bewdley, and other places. An 

 account of its appearances at Droitwich more especially, is given by Mr. Leo- 

 nard Horner in Geol. Trans, vol. ii. p. 95. 



In a quarry near the N.E, extremity of the lower Lickey range, the red 

 sandstone is highly ferruginous, and contains small masses of an impure hema- 

 tite. It is here worked for making lime, as it includes in great abundance 

 grains and small water-worn pebbles of limestone. It thus passes into a cal- 

 careous breccia, and in this state it is found a few miles to the north near 

 Frankley Church. Its grains and pebbles are frequently united by a calca- 

 reous cement. 



The limestone of Bromsgrove Lickey rises immediately from under the 

 red sandstone. I was not able to discover it at the southern extremity of the 

 range ; but I remarked, as an indication of its presence either now or hereto- 

 fore, an abundant growth in that particular spot of the Clinopodium vulgare. 

 Some beds with a copious intermixture of sand appear on the eastern border 

 of the range, to the south of the Birmingham road : and at Colmore's Farm, 

 situated on the N. E. declivity, a bed of pure limestone is worked about 2 feet 

 in thickness and 8 feet from the surface of the ground. A red stiff marl lies 

 over it, and beneath it is a similar marl variegated with blue. 



At a short distance to the east of this limestone, and at the base of a hill 

 called Leach Heath, a shaft has been sunk to the depth of 123 yards by 

 Mr. Attwood, the proprietor of the estate. The beds near the surface are in- 

 dicative of a coal formation, consisting of slate-clay, sandstone, coal, and iron- 

 stone, a considerable portion of the last being in the state of a red oxyd. 

 Beds of limestone alternating with strata of slate-clay succeed, extending to 

 the depth of above 100 yards from the surface. The hmestone appears to be 

 exactly analogous to that of Shropshire, containing shells belonging to the 

 genera Pentamerus*, Terebratula, Productus, &c. with the same coralloids 

 and trilobite, which occur also in the Dudley limestone. The beds of slate- 

 clay, which alternate with the limestone, are remarkable for containing the 

 impressions not only of shells, but of plants apparently belonging to some de- 

 scription of fucus, which has been very much branched, with its frond flat and 

 without a ribf. 



The quartz-rock of Bromsgrove Lickey, constituting the lowest portion of 



* The pentamerus appears to be not Pentamerus Knightii, but the smaller species found at 

 Norbury. t See PI. XXVII. fig. 1, 2. 



