402 MK. S. S. BUCKMAN ON THE BAJOCIAN [Aug. 1895, 



Section VIII. — Bird-in-Hand, near WhitesJiill. (Prom Stroud, 

 2 miles N.tf .W.) 



Upper Trigonia-grit overlying brown shelly stone with Acantho- 

 ihyris, small globose species. Blocks of a yellowish, somewhat shelly 

 sandy stone are lying about, and these have come from lower down. 

 It is safe to say that there are some 4 or 5 feet of this bed worked 

 which would appear to be similar to that noted at Stroud Hill below 

 the Upper Trigonia-grit. In that case these sandy beds would be 

 superior to the upper beds shown in the next section — to agree with 

 Stroud Hill. 



Section IX. — Scotesquar 1 Hill. (From Stroud, 2 miles 2 furlongs, 

 nearly N". ; from Leckhampton, 8| miles S.W.) 



ft. ins. ft. ins 



Gryphite-grit? 2 1. Grey, shelly, sandy stone, with fairly 



numerous GrypJusce ... about 6 



BucJcmani- 2. Greyish-yellow, shelly, sandy stone 



grit. about 3 



3. Yellow sands 8 



4. Grey marl 4 



5. Yellowish sandy stone , 1 6 



5 6 



Lower Tri- 6. Yellow, ironshot, oolitic stone, some- 

 gonia-gnt. what marly about 3 6 



The above rests on whitish marl cemented by calcareous infiltration. 



Note. — The section is a shallow opening on the side of the hill. The beds 

 have evidently been much affected by shifting, and from this exposure alone 

 the sequence could not have been made out. 



This section, placed below the estimated amount of sandy beds at 

 the Bird-in-Hand, gives about 19 feet of the ' intervening beds,' 

 a thickness which corresponds closely enough with that of Stroud 

 Hill, about 20 feet. 



From the ridge running by Spoonbed all beds later than the 

 Lower Freestone have been removed, and so there is no exposure 

 until Kimsbury Castle, 2\ miles N.E. by N. There is a fine 

 quarry on the eastern flank of the hill overlooking Castle Grodwyn, 

 showing the Gryphite- and Buchnani-grits side by side on account 

 of a fault, so that some caution is required in making this section. 

 The Lower Trigonia-grit supporting the grey marl wherein Tere- 

 bratula Buchnani is generally found, and the overlying sand, are 

 seen on the top of a deep freestone-quarry immediately to the right 

 of the lane leading from above Castle Godwyn on to the hill. The 

 beds are disturbed, and the measurements, therefore, may not be 

 quite trustworthy ; for instance, as regards the small thickness of 



1 Spelt on the Ordnance Survey map as ' Scotchguar ;' but ' skort ' or ' scote ' 

 is a common Gloucestershire word reasonably applied in some of its various 

 meanings to this quarry. It is the Anglo-Saxon ; Sceotan' On the meanings 

 of ' skort ' see the Gloucestershire Glossary. ' Guar ' is obviously a miscon- 

 ception of ' quar ' (kwar), the dialect form of ' quarry.' 



2 Compare Buckmani-grit, Stroud Hill, bed 6, p. 396. 



