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A RAMBLE EOTJND LUDLOW. 
By Geoege E. Roberts, of Kibdeeminsteh. 
After the al fresco dinner of the " Worcestershire Naturalist Club," 
under the Sorb Tree, in Wyre Forest, I and Mr. Baxter of Worcester, 
well known for his botanical acumen, started for the Ludlow pro- 
montory, via Cleobury and Caynham. I copy from my note-book the 
following geological facts — some may be of use to the definer of the 
limits of ancient life-periods ; others, deficient in value for such pur- 
poses, may save future explorers time and trouble in working up 
the district, 
I arrange them in the order of their occurrence. 
The " Brownstones " of the cornstone series are finely quarried a 
mile east of Cleobury ; very fine rippled-marked slabs may be obtained, 
and ichnites (fossil footprints) should be apparent, it being an equiva- 
lent bed to the one in which they occur at Puddlestone, Herefordshire. 
The curious outlier of the " Forest Coal-field," on which Cleobury 
stands, has been fruitlessly sunk into for coal this year ; another proof 
that the geologist is not " abroad " in the land, no bed in the whole 
coal-field having paid expenses, and, in some instances — this I find 
among the number — the Old Red has been reached without coal being 
met with. 
The south end of the Titterstone Hill, presenting a fine escarpment 
of mountain limestone to the valley, is very barren of fossils. I could 
not meet with or hear of any of those interesting fish-jaws, spines, and 
palatal teeth, so numerous along its northern sides at Oreton and 
Farlow. Neither did the yellow sandstones, dipping beneath the 
limestone, yield any trace of IIolopfijcMu& or Pterichthys ; they are 
here well exposed, but very gritty, and more irregularly bedded than at 
Farlow. Sir R. Murchison notes, in " Siluria a fin-spine of Ctenacan- 
thus from Gorstley Rough, a mile N.W. of this place, but it would 
seem a solitary instance of what may be obtained in plenty at Oreton. 
Our excursion thus commenced badly, for though my companion, 
ecclesiologically inclined, sought the church at Corley, he retired, dis- 
gusted with such an example of " early churchwarden-art." 
Through the Upper Ludlow of Caynham we reached Ludlow. The 
Caynham beds are coloured, in error, as Wenlock in the Geological 
