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Section XIII. — Quarry in Cranham Wood. 1 (On the right-hand 

 side of the road from Birdlip to Foston's Ash. From Birdlip, 

 1 mile.) 



ft. ins. 

 Upper Tri- 1. Grey, shelly ragstone. Terebratula globata, 



gonia-gvit. Rhynchonetta angulata 3 



2. Disintegrated earthy band, to be seen on the 

 west side of the quarry about 3 inches thick, 



but not on the south side 



Upper Free- 3. White, oolitic, shelly freestone, Terebratula 

 stone. fimbria, very plicate forms, not uncommon 

 at 4 feet 6 inches from top of bed ; also at 

 4 feet, and at 3 feet 6 inches down. Top of 

 the bed much bored by annelids, and occa- 

 sionally by Lithodomi 6 



Note. — A few specimens of Rhynchonetta cynomorpha, n. sp., were found on 

 the spoil-heaps, but their exact horizon could not be fixed. They come, of 

 course, in the Freestone, either with or just above Terebratula fimbria. (Com- 

 pare section of the Frith, p. 400.) 



The remarkable thing about this quarry is that not only are all 

 the ' intervening beds ' absent, but the Upper Freestone itself has 

 been denuded away to a certain extent. 2 



Three-quarters of a mile farther north is another section — that of 

 Buckle Wood. In it the Upper Freestone seems to have suffered 

 less from denudation, for there is as much as 4 feet 6 inches ex- 

 posed, and yet no bed with Terebratula fimbria. The inference is 

 that the maximum of the Bajocian denudation was reached at 

 Cranham Wood quarry. 



Section XIV. — Buckle Wood Quarry. 3 (From Birdlip, 3 furlongs 

 on the left-hand side of the road to Stroud. From Stroud, 

 6 miles 5 furlongs N.E. ; from Leckhampton Hill, 3 miles S.W. 

 by S.) 



ft. ins. 



Upper Tri- 1. ' Ragstone ; will stand frost.' Grey 



^ma-grit. shelly limestone with Terebratula globata, 



Rhynchonetta hampenensis, Zeilleria Hughesi, 



etc., and with Rhynchonetta angulata as a 



common fossil about 4 



Upper Free- 2. ' Freestone ; will not stand frost.' White 



stone. shelly oolitic stone 4 6 



Note. — The Upper Freestone is bored a little at the top. Shelly stone with 

 several specimens of Terebratula globata occurs, in close contact therewith, parted 

 by a seam of marl ; but there are more conspicuous seams above. Freestone- 

 lumps are on the same horizon as the shelly stone, so that this bed is evidently 



1 Marked as ' Buckholt Wood ' on the Ordnance Survey-map ; see p. 405. 



2 It must be remembered that there was denudation of the Upper Freestone 

 before the deposition of the Lower Trigonia-grit ; such denudation presumably 

 took place during the concavi hemera, and during the deposition of the Harford 

 Sands in the Northern Cotteswolds. In the present case a later denudation has 

 not only removed the subsequently-deposited ' intervening beds,' but seems to 

 have cut the Upper Freestone itself down to a still lower level. 



3 Buckle Wood is distinct from Buckholt Wood ; but perhaps a confusion 

 between the two names misled the officers of the Ordnance Survey. Buckle 

 Wood is in the parish of Brimpsfield ; it is not marked on the 1-inch map. 



