Yol.  49,]  OF  THE  SHERBORNE  DISTRICT.  485 
Section  II. — Bradford  Abbas  ;  East  Hill  Quarry.  (From 
Sherborne  Abbey  3  miles  1  furlong  west  by  south.) 
Feet.  Inches. 
j Fusees  A  (pars)  1.  White  limestone,  and  distorted  stone  at  top. 
&  &  Oppelia  cf.  fasca,  (Ecotraustes  conjungens 
Zigzag.  B.  (May.),  Oppelia,  various  sp .  6  6 
0.  2.  Yellow,  sandy  stone  .  5 
Truellii.  D.  3.  Soft,  whitish  limestone,  with  ParJcinsonia 
ParJcinsoni,  &c .  3 
Garantiance.  F.  4.  The  ‘  Dirt  Bed/  the  ‘  Marl  Bed.’ — Soft 
earthy  parting.  The  horizon  of  Rhyn- 
chonella  parvula,  Desl.  ;  Bictyothyris 
Morieri  (Dav.)  ;  Aulacothyris  carinata 
(Lam.) ;  Astarte  subquadrata ,  S.  Buckm. ; 
Ostrea  Knorri ;  ‘  Oppelia  sp./  etc .  2 
5.  Soft,  bluish-white  limestone,  irregularly  and 
indistinctly  separated  from  the  bed  above. 
Astarte  obliqua,  Desh. ;  Ast.  Manseli ,  S. 
Buckm .  4 
Sauzei.  J.  6.  The  ‘  Irony  Bed.’ — Bluish  limestone  with 
large  iron  grains,  which  fall  out,  leaving 
holes.  Sonninia  mesacanthus  (Waag.); 
Sonn.  sp. ;  Witchellia  sp. ;  Astarte  ex- 
cavata,  Sow .  4 
Biscitce.  L.  7.  Yellowish-blue  ironshot  limestone,  darker 
coloured  than  the  bed  below.  Sonninia 
and  Hyperlioceras . 7 
Concavi.  M.  8.  Yellow  and  bluish  ironshot  limestone. 
Lioceras  concavum- forms  abundant ;  Lud- 
wigia  cornu ,  S.  Buckm.1  .  1  4 
Bradfordensis.  N.  9.  Soft  yellow  marl :  Lioceras  bradfordense,  L. 
v-scriptum  .  1 
Murchisonce.  0.10.  The  ‘Paving  Bed.’ — Yellow  and  blue  shelly 
limestone.  Ludwigia  Murchisonce  (Sow.) .  5 
11.  Soft,  yellow  parting .  1 
12.  Yellow  and  blue  shelly  limestone.  (The 
hard  blue  sandy  limestone  of  the  bed 
below  runs  up  into  it  unevenly,  in  some 
places  as  much  as  one-half.)  .  10 
E.  13.  The ‘Dew Bed.’ — Hard,  blue-centred,  sandy, 
shelly  stone.  Bumortieria  Moorei  (Lyc.)  ; 
‘  Rhynchonella  BenecJcei  (Haas)  ’ .  11 
14.  Yellow  sands . . 
In  the  line  of  parting  between  Beds  7  and  8,  and  in  vertical 
joints  through  the  same  beds,  the  stone  is  decomposed  into  a  soft 
yellow  paste.  In  this  paste  the  gasteropoda  are  found  most 
easily. 
For  palaeontological,  lithological,  or  stratigraphical  reasons, 
whether  combined  or  separately,  I  correlate  the  beds  marked  by 
the  same  letters — in  fact,  most  of  the  Stoford  beds  are  repeated  at 
Bradford  ;  but  there  is  an  increase  in  general  thickness,  due  to  the 
introduction  of  new  strata.  The  4  Dew  Bed  ’  belongs  to  the  Moorei 
1  Beds  7  and  8  are  the  ‘  Dossil  Bed  ’  —concavum-zouQ  (auctorum).  For  the 
gasteropoda  from  the  ‘  concavum- zone  ’  see  Hudleston,  ‘  British  Jurassic  Gaste¬ 
ropoda,’  Palseont.  Soc.  1887  et  seq. ;  for  the  Ammonites,  see  the  Author’s  ‘Inf. 
Ool.  Amm,/  ibid. 
