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OF THE BATH-DOTTLTINGr DISTRICT. 



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(C) Farmcombe Quarry. 



Thickness in feet inches. 

 Fullers' Earth... Clay, pale-grey and yellow, with bluish-grey 

 patches; Terebratula glohata, auctt., non 

 Sow., T. doultingensis, sp. nov., T. sphmroid- 

 alis, Sow. (immature), Acanthothyris mid- 

 fordensis, sp. nov., A. doulting ensis, sp. nov., 

 Rhynchonella voluta, sp. nov., Rh. plateia, 

 sp. nov., Aulacothyris Manclelslohi (Oppel), 

 Zeilleria emarginata (Sow.), Serpula volu- 

 bilis, Miinster (in Goldfuss), S. plicatilis, 

 M. (in Goldf.), 8. quadrilatera, Goldf., 

 Stomatopora Walton i, Haiine, St. aff. Wal- 

 toni, Haime, St. sp., Berenicea compressa 

 (Goldfuss), B. cf. verrucosa (M.-Edw.), 

 Pholadomya ovalis (J. Sow.), Ostrea 

 Knorri, Yoltz, Ostrea sp., Belemnites 

 (Belemnopsis) bessinus, d'Orb., IB. (B.J 



parallelus, Phillips ; seen 2 



Limestone, rubbly, white, mixed with clay ; 



variable, say 1 



I. Bubbly Beds. Limestone, pale-brown, rubbly, oolitic ; full of 

 Terebratula globata, auctt. (Clypeus-Grrit 

 form), especially at 4 feet 4 inches down, 

 Rhynchonella hampenensis, S. Euckman, 

 Acanthothyris spinosa (Schloth.), Pleuromya 

 Goldfussi (Lyce\jt),Holecty2>us hemispharicus 



(Agassiz) 5 6 



Marl, arenaceous 3 



II. Axabacia - Limestone, hard, brown, oolitic ; top-bed 



Limestones. bored and covered with oysters 7 6 



III. Doulting Similar limestone, with much-bored and 



Stone. oyster-covered top-bed ; seen 8 



The Doulting Stone is worked in a quarry, in a field on the hill- 

 side, about half a mile west of Chesterblade. 



About a quarter of a mile north-north-west of Chesterblade is a 

 small quarry. From the rubble and clay which caps this section I 

 obtained Ornithella cadomensis (E. Desl.), 0. ornithocephala (Sow., 

 pars), Mhynchonella Smithi, Walker, and Posidonomya opalina, 

 Quenstedt. These fossils, I think, were not in situ, but had been 

 derived from the Fullers'-Earth Bock which forms the high ground 

 on both sides of the little valley. 



(D) Doulting Quarry, etc. 



North of the railway-line quarrying operations have been very 

 extensive, although most of the workings are now abandoned. The 

 best section in the area at the time of my visit was that in a quarry 

 on the east side of the road between Doulting and Cheylinch (p. 396). 



The lowest bed seen in the quarry is called the ' llagstone ' or 

 1 Hag-Bed ' by the quarrymen. Then comes the Doulting ' Free- 

 stone/ capped by the ' Hard ' — a coarse, rarely-oolitic limestone. 

 The Anabacia-Jjimesiones, wbich succeed, are locally called the 



