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of fossils. This bed is exactly like the sand which occupies the same 

 position at Maiden Bradley, except that it is perhaps slightly finer 

 in grain, consisting principally of small and fairly even-sized quartz- 

 grains with a scattering of much larger grains ; the grains of 

 glauconite are dark green and of irregular shape. The grains of 

 quartz appear to be rather less worn than those in the sand above 

 the Cornstones. Hard whitish calcareous concretions occur in this 

 sand, precisely as at Maiden Bradley. 



Dead-Maid Quarry, Mere. (Fig. 3, p. Ill & PL V.) 



The next exposure to which we shall call attention is a large 

 quarry at a spot called the ' Dead Maid ' on the north side of the 

 main road, about ^ niile west of Mere and 4 miles south of Maiden 

 Bradley. This has been largely worked for building-stone and cherts 

 during the last few years, and exhibits the junction of the Chalk 

 and Upper Greensand very clearly ; but the details differ somewhat 

 from those of Maiden Bradley and Rye Hill. The beds are seen to 

 be inclined at an angle of about 5° to the eastward, and PL V is 

 reproduced from a photograph of this quarry taken by one of us 

 (J. S.) in 1899. The succession of beds at the eastern end of this 

 quarry is illustrated in fig. 3, p. 111. 



The hard Chalk-Marl (No. 2) splits into small flatfish brick- 

 shaped pieces, is light grey, and contains scattered grains of glauconite, 

 which become rapidly more numerous towards the base. Fossils 

 are not numerous, but Peden Beaveri^ Lima aspera, Rhynchonella 

 grasiana, and a few others were found. It does not contain any 

 phosphates. 



The layer below (No. 3) is rather less hard than the beds above 

 and beneath it, but is in other respects a passage-bed. It is a 

 compact glauconitic and sandy marl, mottled with bluish- 

 grey streaks. It contains a few large grains of quartz. 



The next bed (No. 4) is a hard massive glauconitic marl, 

 or rather marlstone, including much quartz-sand, and containing 

 many phosphatic nodules both large and small. Fossils are abundant 

 throughout, and include Ammonites varians, A. Coujoei, A. Mantelli, 

 and Turrilites Bergeri. This is the Chloritic Marl. Its base is 

 a clearly marked plane, and there is nothing to correspond exactly 

 with the brown sand and nodule-bed of Maiden Bradley, unless it 

 be the phosphate-crust, which in places coats the top of the under- 

 lying bed. 



No. 5 is the most remarkable bed in the quarry, although it is 

 only from 12 to 18 inches thick. In general colour and compo- 

 sition it resembles Bed 4, but contains a larger quantity of sand 

 (quartz and glauconite) with less of the chalky matrix. The 

 material has the hardness and consistency of good mortar ; in it 



