Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 77 



Antrobus for Stonehenge alone ; and stating that if the Wilts County 

 Council will guarantee £300 the Commons and Footpaths Preservation 

 Society and the National Trust will take the question of the enclosure 

 into a court of law. 



Wilts County Mirror, Dec. 12th, 1902, prints a letter from Mr. 

 William Dale, F.S.A., defending the enclosure as necessary — and a 

 rejoinder from Sir Robert Hunter who regards it as unlawful. 



See also, under notice of " Geology of the Country around Salisbury" 



below. 



M The Geology of the Country around Salisbury 



(explanation of Sheet 298), by Clement Eeid, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., 

 with contributions by H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., F. J. Bennett, F.G.S., 

 and A. J. Jukes Browne, B.A., F.G.S. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey). 

 London. 1903." Price Is. 3d. (price of Sheet 298, colour printed, 1a-. 6c?.) 

 Large 8vo, pp. (2) and 77, with thirty-eight illustrations of fossils and 

 sections. 



The formations dealt with in this memoir range from the Kimeridge 

 Clay at the bottom through the Portland and Purbeck beds, the Wealden, 

 the Lower Greensand, Gault, and Upper Greensand, the Lower, Middle, 

 and Upper Chalk, to the Reading beds, London Clay, Bagshot Sand, 

 Clay with Flint, Plateau Gravel, Valley Gravel, Brick Earth, and Recent 

 Alluvium. 



Of these the Kimeridge Clay crops out only in the bottom of the 

 valley near Tisbury. The Portland beds extend from near I}pnhead and 

 East Knoyle to Tisbury and Chicksgrove, and again in the Chilmark 

 Valley, where they are largely quarried for building stone, and the Purbeck 

 beds also show extensive sections in the Vale of Wardour, and are much 

 quarried. The Wealden beds for a depth of about 10 feet can be seen in 

 the railway cutting at Dinton Station. The Gault is chiefly known from 

 a brickyard at Ridge, and a well at Dinton. The Upper Greensand of 

 the Vale of Wardour is 150 feet in thickness. The Glauconitic Sandstone 

 of these beds was formerly much used for building, and was called 

 " Greenstone " at Fovant. It stands the frost well. The Lower Chalk 

 runs along the foot of the scarp which bounds the Vale of Wardour. in 

 the Wylye Valley, near Codford, and round Alvediston and Broad Chalke. 

 The Middle Chalk forms the lower part of the steep escarpments of the 

 chalk downs, with a thickness of from 80 to 100 feet. The Upper Chalk, 

 with a thickness of 700 or 800 feet, forms the greater part of Salisbury 

 Plain. The London Clay occupies only an area of four or five square 

 miles, and was formerly well exposed in the railway cutting through 

 Clarendon Hill, north of Alderbury. Here Mr. F. E. Edwards made an 

 extensive collection of fossils, some of them species peculiar to this 

 locality. The collection is now in the British Museum, and the list of 

 the eighty species is given in the memoir in full. The Bagshot Sand 

 occurs as an outlier of about two square miles, extending from Alderbury 

 to^ East_ Grimstead, with a thickness of about 50 feet. The Clay with 



