LOWER LIAS : WATCHET. 
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Alternations of grey limestones, some- ~] 
times in thin bands, with shales and 
shaly marls, but merging into a more 
prominent mass of blue limestones }>20 to 25 0_ 
with thin shaly marls. Seen in the j 
cliffs at Sturt? ; also west of Little I 
Stoke, by cave east of Kilve Pill ; ] 
at base of cliffs, by gangway near 
Kilve Farm, and thence to Quan- 
tockshead. 
Alternate bands of thin blue and yellow 
(iron-stained) limestones, 25 or more 
in number, with blue and sometimes 
brown marly shales. The limestones 
being jointed and standing out 
irregularly, present a zig-zag appear- 
ance amongst the clays. On the 
whole there is a larger proportion of 
clay or shale, especially towards the )>About 40 
lower part. Seen in cliffs to the west 
of Little Stoke ; at the base of 
Quantockshead ; upper part of St. 
Avulries. Portions of this division 
are faulted against the Keuper Marls 
at the Bathing Cove, Watchet. 
These stone-beds yield Ammonites 
Bucklandi, Nautilus, Plearotomaria, 
GryphcEa arcuata, Lima gigantea, 
Rfiynchoiiella calcicosta, Pentacrinus. j 
Dark grey shale and grey marl with ] 
only occasional bands of limestone. | 
Seen at several points at base of cliffs ^30 to 35 
between Little Stoke and Kilve Pill ; \ 
St. Audries. Ammonites angulatus. 
f I. Slaty marls, dark shales, and bands of limestone. ~] 
Ammonites planorbis, A. Johnstoni, Ostrea lias- 
sica, Pullastra arenicola p (with shell), Modiola 
minima. These beds rest on the White Lias 
Series, and may be seen at the top of the Cliff, 
east of Little Stoke, at St. Audries, to the 
west of Watchet, and near Blue Anchor, 
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Rhaatic / White Lias, consisting of grey shaly marls, limestone- 
Beds. \ shales, and beds of compact limestone - about 
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Along this coast the Lower Lias is first exposed in a low cliff, 
that rises to a height of 20 or 30 feet, at. Sturt Point east of 
Benhole Farm, and to the west of Stolford. Here we find blue 
shaly marls and hard jointed limestones, which probably belong 
to divisions 4 and 5 ; but the only fossil I obtained was a .doubtful 
specimen of Ammonites scmicoslatus. The limestone-bands form 
ledges along the foreshore, stretching in various directions 
according to the lie of the strata, which arc repeatedly faulted. 
Some of these bands are much veined with calc-spar, owing no 
doubt to the effects of disturbance and fracture. 
Old lime-kilns (mostly deserted) are to be seen here and there- 
near the margin of the cliffs, the stone being occasionally burnt 
for building-lime. 
