Remarks on Wilton Church. 



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on account of its wide range and distinct character, but also because 

 it yields a somewhat peculiar set of fossils. 



A better section is given by a smaller cutting close by westward, 

 where the chalk-rock (dipping 2° or 3° eastward) forms a hard ledge 

 a foot or more thick, with green-coated nodules at its well-marked 

 top, sharply dividing it from the chalk above, whilst on the other 

 hand it passes down into nodular chalk, both hard and soft, in which 

 another but fainter bed of the "rock" occurs about five feet below 

 the layer of nodules. There are flints in the Upper-Chalk and thin 

 layers of marl in the Lower. 



As these sections are very near the outcrop of the Upper Green- 

 sand it follows that the Lower Chalk and the Chalk Marl are 

 comparatively thin here. 1 



Ikmavlts on Milton Cjmtdj. 



By the Eector, Rev. Dacres Oliviee, M.A. 



(Read before the Society during the Meeting at Wilton, September, 1870.) 



^^^OWEVER conventional such an apology may appear, I can- 

 j H^ j^ not proceed with this paper without assuring the members of 

 the Society that I enter upon my subject with the utmost diffidence. 

 When invited, however, to say something about Wilton Church, I felt 

 it would be a sort of treachery to decline. Of that Church in which 

 I have been privileged for the last ten years to minister — which one 

 of Wiltshire's most distinguished men erected — whose beauty and 

 grace and religious impressiveness grow on me daily and hourly, and 

 are indeed, the source of one of my life's chief happinesses — of this 

 Church how could I not, when asked, at least try to say a few words ? 



To begin then — I have only to remind the members of this Society 

 that the gloss on the stone of our Church, and its still sharp and 

 unworn lines ought not to deceive or mislead them. For ours is no 



1 A very good example of the "Chalk Rock" may bo seen on the top of 

 Whitesheet hill, South Wilts. It is there about three feet in thickness. W. C. 



