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SHARP OOLITES OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 



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Section at EldreCs Quarry, with Quarrymen's Terms. 



ft. 



1. "Rammel" — broken stone, about 4 



2. "Clinkers" — compact marly whitisb stone, very good for 



lime-burn ing : has a glistening fracture 2 



3. " Pendle " — hard, flaggy limestone, rather oolitic, deeper in 



colour than the last, in thin layers 2 



4. "Shelly Course" — composed wholly of shells with corals, 



very hard, ("Stamford Marble"?) 2 



5. "Bullymong" — soft white marly limestone, containing 



numerous fossils, (like the " Stamford Stone " of Squires's 

 quarry), more compact and harder towards the bottom... 4 



6. " Blue Limestone " — hard compact stone, blue-hearted, 



good rubble walling-stone 4 



7. Course of cream-coloured clay 



8. Hard limestone, with oolitic grains 1 



9. " Bastard Freestone " — an oolitic limestone, in two courses 3 



10. Hard and compact marly course 



11. Soft white marly limestone (like the "Stamford Stone "of 



Squires's quarry), in four courses of different thickness ... 5 



12. " Caley " oolitic bed (like some of the upper beds at Colly- 



weston) 1 



13. " Bastard Freestone," containing concretionary masses of 



very hard limestone 1 



14. "Freestone" — a good oolitic freestone 1 



15^ Limestone — thickness not ascertained. 



Belmisthorpe. 



Two miles north of Eldret's Quarry, the railway, after crossing 

 the valley of the Gwash, passes, by a cutting, through the Great 

 Oolite Limestone and the underlying Upper Estuarine Clays. This 

 cutting is distant only two miles to the north-east from the summit 

 of the Stamford Field, and yet the beds here exposed are nearly 

 100 feet lower in level than the same beds in their elevated position 

 at the last-named site. From these beds at Belmisthorpe, I have an 

 abundance of Great Oolite fossils of forms rendered familiar by 

 their frequent occurrence in the Great Oolite beds of the North- 

 ampton district. 



Fossils from Great Oolite Limestone at Belmisthorpe. 



Lima cardiiformis, Sow. sp. 

 Ostrea sub-rugulosa, Mor. Sc Lye. 

 Pecten annulatus, Sow. 

 Pinna cuneata, Phil. 



Cardium Buckmani, Mor. Sc Lye. 



subtrigonum, Mor. dr Lye. 



Ceromya Symondsii, Mor. 8c Lye. 



, sp. ? 



Corbis Bathonica, Mor. Sc Lye. 

 Cuculhea, sp. ? 



Cypricardia Bathonica, Mor. Sc Lye. 

 Cyprina depressiuscula, Mor. Sc Lye. 

 Gresslya peregrina, Phil. 

 Homomya Vezelayi, oV Arch, sp. 



Homomya crassiuscula, Mor. Sc Lye. 

 Isocardia tenera, Sow. 

 Macrodon Hirsonensis, d'Arch. sp. 

 Modiola imbricata, Sow. 

 Myacites calceiformis, Phil. sp. 



securiformis, Phil. sp. 



Terquemea, Buv. sp. 



Neaara Ibbetsoni, Morris. 

 Pholadomya deltoidea, Sow. 



lyrata, Sow. 



oblita, Mor. Sc Lye. 



socialis, Mor. Sc Lye. 



solitaria, Mor. Sc Lye. 



, new round sp. ? with irregular 



COStcB*. 



* Found also at Danes' Hill, near Peterboro', and near Northampton — all in 

 the Great Oolite Limestone. 



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