498  ME.  S.  S.  BUCKMAN  ON  THE  BAJOCIAN  [NOV.  1893, 
This  quarry  has  been  closed  f<?r  many  years.  We  reopened  it  in 
the  summer  of  1892  in  the  hope  of  penetrating  to  the  equivalent  of 
the  Sandford  Lane  ‘  Fossil  Bed  ’ ;  hut  it  soon  became  evident  that 
this  was  an  impossibility,  without  blasting  to  a  dangerous  extent. 
Having  found  strata  of  the  Humphriesiani  hemera  close  to  the  surface 
elsewhere,  I  determined  to  make  a  special  opening ;  the  result  was 
entirely  successful.  The  following  section  shows  the  strata  opened 
up,  and,  as  will  be  proved  by  a  section  to  follow,  it  may  he  actually 
regarded  as  a  continuation  of  Section  XIII.  I  may  remark  that  each 
bed  was  taken  off  separately  as  carefully  as  possible,  the  contents 
noted  by  breaking  up  the  stone,  and  all  that  stone  put  aside  before 
the  next  bed  was  attacked.  Owing  to  the  proximity  of  the  beds  to 
the  surface,  it  was  possible  to  make  more  precise  separation  than  at 
Sandford  Lane.  . 
This  opening  is  not  far  from  several  old  filled-in  workings,  which 
have  probably  yielded  many  fossils  labelled  4  Clatcombe  ;  in  fact, 
at  one  time  it  had  evidently  been  worked  to  a  shallow  depth  itself. 
Section  XIY .—Clatcombe  Farm.— (Section  north  of  the  new  farm¬ 
house,  and  on  the  left-hand  side  of  the  road  to  Clatcombe  Barn.1) 
The  place,  which  was  opened  on  purpose  and  then  filled  up 
again,  is  1  mile  3  furlongs  due  north  of  Sherborne  Abbey. 
Feet.  Inches  „ 
Humphriesiami,  H.  1.  Hard,  brown,  ironskot  oolite,  broken  up 
from  being  close  to  the  surface.  Tere- 
bratula  sphceroidalis,  Pcecilomorphus 
cycloides  (d’Orb.),  ‘  Stephanoceras 
Braihenridgii ,’  St.  subcoronatum 
(Oppel),  and  other  species  of  the 
‘  Humphriesianum- type ;  ’  Dorsetensia 
Edouardiana  (d’Orb.),  Oppelia  aff. 
subradiata,  (Ecotraustes  aff.  geni- 
cularis  (Waag.),  Sphceroceras  Brong- 
niarti  (Sow.),  Sph.  Orbignianum 
(Wright)  . . . . .  1  3 
I.  2.  Hard,  brown,  ironshot  oolite, very  fissile, 
in  thin  layers.  No  fossils  seen.  (The 
top  of  this  bed  is  very  flat.)  . . . .  8 
Sauzei.  J.  3.  Hard,  greyish-brown  ironshot  oolite. 
Witchellia  sp.,  Sonninia  sp.  (young 
example  with  small  spines).  Several 
Ammonites  of  the  Sonninia  Zurcheri- 
type.  Terebratula  ventricosa,  Zieten, 
Acanthothyris  paucispina,  Buckm.  & 
Walker,  JPleurotomaria  granulata, 
Cucullcea  ornata  . 
4.  Yellowish  limestone,  slightly  ironshot. 
Chief  horizon  for  gasteropoda, 
several  species  of  Bleurotomaria ; 
Oppelia  aff.  preeradiata  (Douv.), 
Sphceroceras  Brocchi,  Sonninia  patella 
(Waag.),  Witchellia  sp.,  Acanthothyris 
paucispina  .... .  2 
1  Spelt  incorrectly  on  the  Ordance  Survey  Map,  which  reads  Chatcorub 
Barn’. 
