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OF THE MID-COTTESWOLDS. 



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Section V. — The Frith Quarry. (From Painswick, 1 mile S. ; 

 from Stroud, 2 miles N.N.E. ; from Leckhampton Hill, 8 miles 



S.W. by S.) 



ft. ins. ft. ins, 



BucJcmani- 1. Bagstone, about 2 



grit. 2. Yellowish, sandy ragstone, 1 about ... 3 



3. Hard, yellowish, sandy ragstone. 



Large double- valved Cucull&a show- 

 ing. Bottom of the bed very un- 

 even 10 



4. Fine, bright yellow sand 6 



5. Grey, earthy marl 2 



6. Yellowish, shelly ragstone ; some 



Gryphmcs. Young specimen of 

 Terebratula BucJcmani at the base. 

 AcanthotJiyris, sp., at the very top. 2 

 (Hyboclypus caudatus, Wr. : and 

 corals, Mr. Upton.) 2 



8 6 



Lower Tri- 7. Brown earthy marl 3 



gonia-grit. 8. ' Lamellibranch - bed.' Yellowish, 

 ironshot ragstone, rather soft and 

 considerably broken up by the 

 weather. Pholadomya fidicula, Tri- 

 gonia costata, Trigonia formosa, 

 Isocardia oordata, Opis cordiformis, 

 Lye, Cticullcsa cf. ornata, Ostrea 

 Marshi, Cypricardia ; Lioceras cf. 

 intermedium 1 foot from the top. 3 1 9 to 2 ft. 

 9. Soft yellowish stone 4 



10. Yellowish ironshot stone similar to 



Bed 8, with corals. Not continu- 

 ous in the quarry 3 



11. Similar stone with Gryphcsa and 



Gresslya gregaria (?) 9 



12. Brown earthy marl 4 



3 8 



Upper Free- 13. Soft whitish oolitic marl. In this 



stone and bed are large angular pieces of a 



Oolite Marl. hard, cherty, purplish bed, appa- 

 rently remains of a bed broken up 

 and redeposited 7 



14. Marl parting 2 



15. Yellowish limestone. (This and the 



bed above do not seem to be con- 

 tinuous.) 2 



16. Disintegrated band 1 



17. Coarse, yellowish limestone 3 



1 Beds 1 and 2 are inaccessible, and bed 3 is practically so, though pieces- 

 are shown in the soil on one side. The details here given were taken from a 

 fallen block, which could be identified by its uneven base and the sand adherent 

 to it. 



2 Later information : — ' At the Frith I found two or three lumps of the 

 sandy limestone which had fallen from the sandy beds above the L. T. G. [Lower 

 Trigonia-grit] and knocked out several small T[erebratula\ Buckmani, two 

 specimens very like diminutive T. Phillipsiana, about 1 inch in length, and 

 one small spinose Rhynchonella.' — Mr. C. Upton, in litt., May 14th, 1894. 



3 Witchell's ammonites came, no doubt, from this bed. See p. 392. 



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