1870. | LLOYD—AVON AND SEVERN VALLEYS. 211 
Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 195) the following mammalia are noted 
under the locality “‘ Beckford.” 
Cervus tarandus. Sus scrofa. 
Bos primigenius. Rhinoceros tichorhinus. 
Bison priscus. Hlephas primigenius. 
The President of the Cotteswold Club, Sir W. V. Guise, Bart., 
F.G.S., in his address for 1865, stated that, when at Beckford, in 
company with the Rev. W. 8. Symonds, he found a fragment of a 
shell which Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys pronounced to be a portion of a 
Lucina borealis. I have also seen it stated that Miss Holland, of 
Dumbleton, found a Mssoa at the same place. 
Before concluding the description of the Lower Series I may per- 
haps be permitted to call attention to the occurrence of a stratified 
deposit occurring on the eastern side of Cropthorne Hill, which has 
not yielded hitherto any positive evidence to show whether it is of 
marine or freshwater origin. A section in a sand-pit gives :— 
(Surface of ground 110 feet above the sea, and 60 
feet above the Avon.) ft. i 
n. 
(i) Wegetalale Soil cococoosonnsoncadhosondoncconsdeancosstood Hi) 
(2) Irregular bed of dark red loam, containing large 
and small pebbles of white quartz and flints... 4 0 
(8) Fine red laminated sand ...............:00:00eceseeeee 200 
(4) Quartzose gravel ...........0c cece cece eee Gas lecieta ict 0 3 
(Go) eEinosred! sands vac asen ssauictinase colette ouees se 3 «(0 
(©) Qermwose GRATE sosconncoogandsaboocons oncananoopodedce 0 3 
((7/)), Astwaveyawete lise nals ly "Ge ppakaeoe coaeaeose esos scanoaosseunsaradae 1 
(8) Quartzose gravel ..................c ec cec nec ee eee een es 0 2 
(9) Light-red laminated sand .................-seeseee 3. (OO 
(0) Werke mel Wow .5cocsonqnosasboancconodoabeonenscnda0a56 Die 
CUD) PWarleredisandieecesreadsscecatce caters ceeeceeess 4 0O 
(ea) eRedkclayeyaloamlinnencessccrmacescccectis-ccsce ee 0 2 
((UB})) Tete Senay | soc osscoossdecoqcoSusdQoaSobnoeecodesdodanareded 2 O 
Bottom of pit. 
21 10 
The sand has been excavated to a depth of about 30 feet from the 
surface without haying reached the basement rock. No traces of 
mammalian or molluscan remains have hitherto been discovered. 
The summit of the hill on which the village of Cropthorne stands is 
covered by a capping of gravel, apparently of a similar character to 
that occurring on Cropthorne Heath, already described. As far as I 
am aware, boulders are seldom met with in the gravelly drift of the 
Upper and Lower Series. 
Freshwater Deposits.—Quartzose, flinty gravel, and sand, with 
occasional seams of clay. (Land and freshwater shells and mamma- 
lian remains.) 
From some point between the villages of Lawford and Stoneleigh, 
the exact locality of which is not known, beds of alluvial gravel and 
sand ean be traced, with occasional interruptions, on both sides of 
the Avon, to within a short distance of the town of Tewkesbury, 
their heights above the river increasing for the most part as they 
approach its mouth. On the whole they present a remarkable 
uniformity of composition, thickness, and arrangement of parts, 
