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arrived at Temple Meads for tlie homeward train journey they were literally 
covered with dust, and those wearing dark clothes looked as if they had stepped 
out of a flour mill. However, the excellence of the programme provided by 
Mr Richardson went far to compensate the party for this drawback, and 
the day will be remembered as one of mental profit, and, apart from the 
dust fiend, of physical enjoyment. 
DUNDRY HILL. 
The Club was fortunate in having the company of Mr A. E. Hudd, F.S.A., 
of Clifton. Dundry Hill is situated on the Somersetshire side of Bristol. 
It is both long and steep, but when the summit is attained a fine view rewards 
the climber. Bristol with Clifton and its Suspension Bridge, Avonmouth 
further west, and to the east the termination of the Cotteswolds near Bath, 
provide such a panorama as the eye delights to feast on, and full advantage 
was taken of the opportunity, such time as Members remained in the vicinity 
of the conspicuous church. 
Mr Hudd pointed out that according to Collinson the name of Dundry 
was derived from two Erse words, “ dun ” and “ draegh,” signifying a hill 
of oaks, but that this was not very convincing. The late Bishop Clifford 
suggested that the church tower was probably on the site of an ancient beacon 
for the guidance of mariners, and that the name was derived from the Saxon 
“ Dawn-tree,” from A.S. ‘‘ dagian,” to spread light. The fine tower acts as 
a landmark from the Channel and has been well-restored. In the churchyard 
is a beautiful cross, described and figured by Pooley, of about the same date 
as the tower — late 15th century. There is an interesting ‘‘dole stone,” a 
square block of Oolite (Dundry Freestone) in the churchyard, and until 
comparatively recent time doles were distributed here. The Church is said 
to have been originally built by the Society of Merchants of Bristol. 
The Members then went into the freestone quarry, near the Church. 
Mr Richardson said that Dundry Hill was of considerable interest to 
students of the Inferior Oolite, because the lower beds of the Series here were 
very similar to their equivalents to the south of the Mendip Hills (and totally 
unlike their equivalents in the Cotteswold Hills) ; while the ‘‘Top Beds” 
were similar to their equivalents in the Doulting-Bath district and the South 
Cotteswolds. The Dundry Freestone — formerly so extensively worked in 
this quarry, and, as they had seen from the holes and irregular ground on 
Dundry Down, there as well — occupied a position between the Upper THgonia- 
Grit and Upper Coral-Bed. Its geographical extent was very limited : it 
occurred in sufficient thickness to be workable for commercial purposes only 
in the neighbourhood of the Church. The Church was sufficient evidence of 
the excellence of this freestone. 
Particular attention was drawn to the Upper Coral-Bed because it had 
yielded to Charles Moore — the well-known Somerset geologist — a large 
number of exceedingly interesting micro-fossils, and was in all respects similar 
to its equivalent at Midford, near Bath,^ and at Rodborough Hill ® and Wor- 
gan’s Quarry, ® near Stroud. Many geologists had written on the Inferior Oolite 
of the Dundry-Hill outlier ; but it was Mr S. S. Buckman, in collaboration 
with the late Edward Wilson,* who was the first to describe the beds satis- 
factorily and to correlate them with their equivalents in other parts. Mr 
Richardson had bestowed special attention on the ‘‘Top Beds,” and had , 
published the results of his work in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society.® 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixiii. (1907), pp. 406-408 and Table II. 
2 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. xvi., pt. i (1907), PP- 73. 74 : and id., vol. xvii., pt. i (1910), 
p. 135. 
3 E. Witchell, “ The Geology of Stroud " (1882), pp. 60-61. 
4 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lii. (1896), pp. 669-720 : Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc., vol. viii. (1897), 
pp. 188-231. 
5 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. Ixiii. (1907), pp. 420-421. 
