684 MESSES. S. S. BUCKMAN AND E. WILSON [Nov. 1 89 6, 



Section VI a. — Above Hill Farm (B). 

 (The point almost immediately south.) 



ft. ins. ft. ins. 



Variabilis. 1. Lower Bhynchonella-hed, or next bed 



below. Pale drab to purplish-brown 



stone, with few scattered iron grains. 



Belemnites and Bh. aff. Moorei 1 



Bifrontis. 2. Yellowish-drab to purplish-brown stone 



with many scattered coarse iron 



grains. Ammonites and belemnites 8 



Falciferi. 3. Dense pink stone, small belemnites ... 2 

 4. Dense purplish-grey stone 1 



3 



Spinati. 5. Marlstone Eock. Yellowish - brown, 

 crystalline, richly oolitic rock, with 

 Pseudopecten cequivalvis, a large 

 Gryphcea or Ostrea, and large belem- 

 nites 1 5 



The next section, taken from slightly shifted blocks on the hill- 

 side, gives the following details concerning the Marlstone. 



Section VI b. — Above Hill Farm (C). 



ft. ins. 

 Spinati. 1. Marlstone Eock. Massive ironshot ; Belemnites, 



Gryphcea, Ostrea, Pseudopecten cequivalvis 2 9 



Margaritati ? 2. Dull, brownish, laminated, but massive, quite 



unfossiliferous sandstone 1 6 



There are no sections open at Maes 1 Knoll, and it was necessary 

 to make excavations at suitable places. The next section shows 

 one made on the western flank of the hill or promontory. 



Section VII. — Maes Knoll (the eastern end of Dundry Hill). 

 The western side, just south of the Tump. 



ft. ins. ft. ins. 

 A gentle grass-covered slope from the 



top of the hill, concealing rock 6 



GARANTiANiE. 1. Yellowish limestone thickly speckled 

 with iron grains. Limatula gibbosa, 

 Acanthothyris spinosa, Montlivaltia 



lens 1 4 



2. Pale grey, crystalline limestone with 

 numerous, but irregularly distributed, 

 large, subangular iron grains, and 

 with small lumps of a bluish -grey 

 sandstone nearly at the top. There 

 are also in this bed irregular chimney- 

 like excavations filled with a soft 

 cream-coloured stone containing 

 crowded, very fine iron grains ; also 

 Montlivaltia, Acanthothyris spinosa, 

 Limatula gibbosa, Ctenostreon pectini- 



1 Maes, in Welsh, means ' a plain, an open field,' and such a description 

 exactly applies to this elevated, almost isolated, fiat tableland. 



