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of Felstone, and measured 4ft.x1ft. 8in.x1ft.4in. The deriva- 
tive fossils are chiefly Cardinia, gryphites, and corals from the Lias 
beds, with belemnites &c. from the Oolite. Fragments of silicified 
wood, such as is found near Coventry, in the Permian Sandstone, 
are found in the gravel round Warwick. 
I am indebted to Mr. R. C. Tomes, F.L.S., for the following re- 
marks on the local distribution of the corals occurring in the gravel: 
—‘TIn the fluviatile gravel of Leamington (on the river Leam) a 
species of Montlivaltia occurs pretty frequently, which is so plentiful 
in the upper beds of the Lower Lias at Fenny Compton, about 10 
miles distant. Lower down the Avon, at Welford, below Stratford- 
on-Avon, the gravel contains a small Lias coral, Montlivaltia rugosa, 
found in the corresponding bed in the Lower Lias at Honeybourne, 
about 5 or 6 miles distant. At Fladbury are found specimens of the 
Mesozoic Septastrea Eveshami and Haimii from the adjacent ‘ Angu- 
latus-beds’ of Chadbury. The specimens of Septastrea show but 
little signs of attrition, whilst a Silurian coral (from Charlton ballast- 
pit) appears much water-worn. Near Upton Snodsbury I obtained 
a specimen of Septastrea from the beds of gravel, which contain but 
few flints, in the valley of the Bow, where also mammalian remains 
and freshwater shells have been discovered.” 
There are only two localities in the valley of the Avon, between 
Rugby and Tewkesbury, in which deposits of brickearth have been 
met with, as far as I am aware, viz. at Bengeworth, near Evesham, 
and at Bricklehampton Bank, near Cropthorne, before alluded to. 
In the latter the workings have been abandoned for many years 
past, and are now entirely covered up. The beds of brickearth and 
gravel at Bengeworth are exposed in a brick-yard on the north-west 
side of Knowle Hill, where they rest on a bed of blue Lias clay at a 
distance of about half a mile from the river. I have been unable to 
ascertain their superficial extent, in consequence of the absence of 
any exposure of them, excepting at the locality in question. On the 
north-east side of the pit a bed of unstratified quartzose flinty gravel 
belonging to the “ Lower Series” appears to be cut off towards the 
south-west by the brickearth. The height of the surface of the loam 
above the river is somewhere about 60 ft. The valley thereabouts 
is narrow and deep. On the north-east the loam has been removed, 
and the excavation filled up in part. The dip of the lower gravel- 
bed is 5° N.E. and 8.W. (1 have omitted the dips in the preceding 
descriptions, having found, by repeated trials that, when taken over 
so limited an area as is exposed in a ordinary gravel-pit, they were 
not to be relied on.) I believe the mammalian remains were found 
chiefly in the lower gravel-bed, and that the specimens of Unio 
ovalis occurred in the loam. A section taken near the centre of the 
pit exhibited the following arrangement :— 
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(1) Light-red loam, containing local seams of fine quartzose 
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