412 ME. L. RICHARDSON ON THE INFERIOR OOLITE []NOV. I907, 



(C) Bed-Post Quarry, near Peasdown. 1 



Thickness in feet inches. 

 II. Anabacia- a. Limestone, rubbly, shelly, passing down* 

 Limestones. into more massive beds ; Anabacia com- 

 planata and Montlivaltia common in the 

 bottom-bed : 6 to 8 feet seen 7 



b. Limestone, hard, white ; conspicuous stra- 



tum. Anabacia very common. Top 



bored in places by Lithophagi 11 



c. Limestones, whitish, usually not very com- 



pact. Top-bed noticeably planed, bored, 

 and having a few oysters attached. 



Pebbly in places 2' 



III. Doulting Limestones, massive, yellowish, shelly and 

 Stone. pebbly in places, with a rubbly deposit 

 containing numerous specimens of Tri- 

 gonia at the base ; seen 7 



Bed 115 is the most conspicuous stratum in the section, and 

 frequently can be easily identified on account of its relative hardness, 

 standing out more than the beds above and below it. Possibly 

 this is the bed referred to by Mr. Hudleston (op. jam cit. p. 55), as 



' a line of hardish stone, between 3 and 4 feet from the top, which contains 

 casts of a Nerincea with very complicated folds (Pfygmatis).' 



A section very similar to the foregoing occurs in the quarry at 

 White-Brook's Lane — a quarter of a mile to the west-north-west. 



On the south side of the valley between Carnicote and Midford 

 there are no sections of any importance, neither are there any on 

 the north side between Midford and the Poss Way. The Midford 

 Sands are seen near the inn on the Bath Boad at Dunkerton, and the 

 Doulting Stone and the lower portion of the Anabacia-IAmestones 

 in a disused quarry and road-cutting on the south side of Dunkerton 

 (Duncorn) Hill ; but the intervening Upper Trigonia- Grit, Dundry- 

 Preestone-equivalent (if present), and the Upper Coral-Bed are not 

 now visible in this immediate neighbourhood. W r hen Mr. H. B. 

 Woodward visited these parts the sections were more satisfactory,' 2 

 and 'just above the quarries at Meadgate,' Sir William Guise 

 observed the '" Trigonia- and Spinosa-gr its " forming the base- 

 ment-bed, and resting immediately on the " Sands."' 3 



The conical hills called ' The Barrow Hills ' and Timsbury Sleight 

 are outliers of Inferior Oolite. Concerning the Barrow Hills there 

 is nothing to remark, but it is otherwise with Timsbury Sleight. 

 When Mr. Talbot Paris and I visited the hill, four shafts had been 

 sunk in connexion with certain waterwork schemes, and the entire 

 sequence, from the blue Upper Liassic clay to the Upper Coral-Bed , 

 was visible in one continuous section in the deepest shaft. 



1 Spelt ' Peasedown ' on the new Ordnance-Survey map. 



2 ' The Jurassic Kocks of Britain — The Lower Oolitic Pocks of England 

 (Yorkshire excepted) ' Mem. Geol. Surv. vol. iv (1894) p. 97. 



3 Proc. Ootteswold Nat. P.-C. vol. ii (1859-60) p. 173. 



