Vol. 67.] 



WEST, MID, AND EAST SOMEKSET. 



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On turning the Point, the first gypsum-workings will be seen. 1 

 A path leads from these workings to the top of the cliff; and, about 

 half-way up it, the Pteria-contorta Shales will be noticed in the bank 

 alongside the track. On the right is a steep, but (owing in places 

 to the talus) accessible, face of rock in which the uppermost portion 

 of the Sully Beds, and Beds 33 to 26 of the Westbury Beds, can be 

 made out. The hard, grey-blue, nodular limestone-masses, called 

 ' The Clough,' are very conspicuous. 



Fig. 



1. — View of Cleeve Bay looking towards the North Hill, Minehead. 



L. E. photogr. 



[To show the position of the Warren-Farm section on the shore-line 

 where a line connecting the two arrows would strike it.] 



Down on the foreshore, opposite these gypsum-workings, the con- 

 tinuations of the same beds, that is of Beds 33 to 26, along with 

 higher deposits, up to and inclusive of the Pleurophorus Bed, 

 Bed 13, can be readily identified. The basal deposit of the West- 

 bury Beds (Bed 33) contains small nodules, derived from the sub- 

 jacent Sully Beds, Avhich weather out very conspicuously, as do 

 also the contained eoprolites and fish-remains. In this section the 

 1 nodules ' occur in a regular course, and are parted from the Sully 

 Beds by an inch or two of black marl ; but, in the next section 

 to be noticed, they are seen to be more intimately connected with 

 the basal bone-bed. ' The Clough ' is interesting, because it is its 

 nodules that are principally sought for on the shore, placed in 

 baskets on the backs of donkeys, and taken to the lime-kilns for 

 burning, as they make the best lime. 



1 Proc. Geo!. Assoc, vol. xiv (1896) p. 384. 



