PALMOZOIC DISTRICTS OF WEST SOMERSET, 545 
quarry exposes red-brown and lilac grits and splintery shales, 
which dip N. 15° W. at 25°, and are much cut up with irregular 
joints. The spot is about a quarter of a mile due south of West 
Quantocks Head. 
To the south of the above, in the gully east of Weacombe, a 
quarry is opened in similar grits, fine-grained, and partly greenish, 
dipping N. 35° W. at 20°° A quarter of a mile further up the 
- valley grits with schistose intercalations dip N. 10° W. at from 40° 
to 50°. From here across the summit of the range the surface- 
stones (the only evidence obtainable) are generally of coarse sili- 
ceous grit, reminding one of the upper beds of the Great Hang- 
man *; but where the paths to Hutsham and Holford divide, the 
rock shown in the path is im situ, and apparently horizontal. 
At the foot of the hills at Holford is a large quarry of grits and 
clay shale, which dip N.E. at angles varying from 15° to 30°. The 
beds in the upper part are thin quartzose red-speckled grey grits, 
associated with greenish-grey shale, and resting irregularly upon a 
boss of similar grit (fig. 6), thick-bedded, into which the shales dove- 
Fig. 6.—Boss of Grit in Shales with thin-bedded Grits, Holford 
Quarry. (Vertical scale, 1 in. = 40 feet.) 
tail in one or two places, showing a lenticular character in the beds. 
At a bend in the highroad, just south of Holford, quartzose grits, 
with some even-bedded finer-grained beds and redder in tint, show 
dips changing from E. 30° N. at 40° to EK. at 25°. From Holford, 
following the turnpike road to Nether Stowey, a quarry by Sherwage 
Wood shows red-brown grits, with general dip N. 30° E. at 10°. 
At turning to Doddington, Triassic rocks cross the road; at turn to 
Perry Mill Farm, reddish grits and shales dip E. 35° N. at 40°. 
From Nether Stowey to Cannington and Bridgewater the Palso- 
zoic rocks occur as inliers only, here and there amidst the Triassic 
sediments. Of these we haye only occasion to refer to that of 
Radlet Farm on the south of the road, and those of Ashford Mill 
and Cannington on the north. ‘The inlier at Radlet consists of fine 
reddish grits and shales. Padnoller beds are similar grits and 
shales, affected by an east and west fault, which bounds the last- 
mentioned inlier on the north. 
Immediately to the north of Cannington an K. and W. ridge, two 
miles long, consists of purplish-grey arenaceous mudstones, finely 
* See Symonds’s ‘ Records of the Rocks,’ p. ae 
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