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is almost needless to say the attempts were abortive. 
At a place called the Vine's End, near Cradley, a 
shaft was sunk by subscription of several neighbour- 
ing farmers in the solid limestone ; but after expend- 
ing upwards of £200, they obtained nothing more 
than fragments of carbonate of lime, and broken 
impressions of trilobites. The shafts are now all 
closed up, and it will be well if the present proprie- 
tors remain contented with the unsuccessful trials that 
have been already instituted. 
Ankerdine Hill, near Knightsford Bridge, is com- 
posed of the grit and grauwacke strata before intima- 
ted as occurring at the Storrage, and from hence a 
range of hills, comprehending Woodbury and Abber- 
ley Hills, extends a distance of 18 miles in a direction 
bearing north-east to Bewdley. The western side 
of this ridge is occupied by the old red sandstone 
formation. The strata of old red sandstone and lime 
alternate with each other, being very irregular in their 
inclination, but for the most part dipping eastward, 
though at the south-west termination of Abberley Hill 
they assume an almost vertical position.^ No doubt 
can exist as to the disturbance that has taken place in 
the south-eastern base of the Berrow Hill, Martley, an eminence of old red sand- 
stone. It is traditionally stated that coal was really found there, but that the vein 
was too narrow to pay the expense. However this may have been, the shaft is now 
closed, but a quantity of blue clay that was excavated yet remains. 
* The Rev. Thomas Pearson, Rector of Great Witley, to whom the Society is 
indebted for an elaborate paper on the structure of the Abberley range, thus 
describes the beds of the limestone rock. " It commences at the south-west point 
of Abberley Hill as impure lime, then passes into a greyish-coloured lime, then 
impure lime, which is succeeded by a pale brown sandstone, in which are found 
nodules of lime, also lime amalgamated with sandstone. The sandstone beds again 
