Yol. 51.] 



Buckmani- 

 grit. 



Lower Tri- 

 ffonia-grit. 



Upper Free- 

 stone. 



OF THE MID-COTTESWOLDS. 



ft. ins. 



Grey, sandy, shelly ragstone, weathers 

 yellow. The top is very uneven, 

 and the upper part excavated into 

 deep pit-like holes ; average 1 8 1 



Bright yellow, incoherent sands (like 

 Ootteswold Sands), occasionally 

 hardened, especially the lower part. 1 7 



Brown and blue, stiff clayey marl, 

 with numerous shelly and nacreous 

 fragments 6 



Grey sandy marl containing in places 

 large nodular-shaped lumps, and 

 in other places indurated into a 

 stone-like band ; where soft, Tere- 

 bratula Buchnani may be readily 

 extracted 10 



The ' Clay Bed.' ' The Serpula-bed.' 

 Hard pinkish -grey ragstone with 

 uneven top. Serpula socialis abun- 

 dant 1 4 



The ' Marl-Bed or Marly Eag- 



stone.' Ironshot marly stone with 

 occasional Gryphcecs and various 

 lamellibranchiata 



The ' Pendlum-Bed.' Whitish shelly 

 limestone, hard and sometimes 

 blue-centred 2 



The ' Iron Bed.' Pinkish, somewhat 

 smooth-feeling limestone. ' The 

 hardest bed of all to get out' 

 (quarryman), Nerincece, corals, and 

 some shells 1 3 



The ' Lower Pendlum-Bed.' Hard 

 blue-centred limestone in several 

 layers , 3 



On the other side of the road there 

 may be seen about 4 feet more of 

 the limestone-bed. The beds from 

 8 downwards are the equivalent of 

 the Upper Freestone of geologists . 4 



409 

 ft. ins. 



5 11 



3 



10 3 



Note. — Mr. Charles Upton informs me that he has found Aulacothyris 

 Meriani (Oppel) in this quarry on the spoil-heap. My efforts to discover it 

 in situ have failed ; but this find is noticeable, because this is the first locality, 

 coming from Stroud, for which it can be recorded. He has also obtained a 

 globose Acanthothyris identical with the form obtained at Charlton Common 

 in the Buckmani-grit ; see later, p. 413. 



Another mile and three-quarters in the same direction brings us 

 to the classical locality of Leckhampton Hill. Here the Buckmani- 

 grit is fully developed, because it is capped by the Gryphite-grit ; 

 this bed is also not in any way denuded, because above it lie some 2 

 feet of Notgrove Oolite. Now the last point at which the Notgrove 

 Oolite was seen, by the route taken, was Kimsbury Castle, 6 miles 

 distant ; and the Gryphite-grit was last observed in Buckholt Wood, 

 4| miles away. The thickness of these and other beds at Leck- 

 hampton is given in the following section : — 



1 The manner in which the Upper Triyonia-grit is dovetailed into this bed is 

 very remarkable — sometimes nearly 10 inches. 



