LOWER LIAS : CHELTENHAM. 143 
sional bands of rubbly limestone occur in the clays at Upton St. 
Leonards.* 
At the Cheltenham gas-works, north-west of the Great Western 
railway-station, a deep excavation was made in 1887, in blue 
marly clay. Here Mr. E. Wethered obtained many specimens 
of Gryph&a obliquata, G. cymbium, and varieties not to be 
distinguished from G. arcuata, also small specimens of Hip- 
popodium pondcrositm, Ammonites guibalianus, and A. Green- 
oitffhi. 
Dr. Wright remarked that A. armatus and A. oxynotus occur 
together at Cheltenham. We find a somewhat similar assemblage 
at Hill Moreton, near Rugby. A list of fossils, indicating beds 
belonging to the zones of A, oxynotus to A. Hcnlcyi, has been 
given from the blue calcareous clay in the railway-cutting of 
Denbury Hill, Cheltenhamf ; but the list requires revision. 
At Hucklccote brickyard south-west of Brockwortb, we find 
about 10 feet of bluish-grey and brown marly clay with small 
nodules of earthy limestone. From these beds I obtained Ammo- 
it it es, striatus, A t scijtwnianus, A. Valdani, Belemnites comprcssus, 
B. longissimus, Chcmnitzia, Inoceramus, &c. The species were 
identified by Messrs. Sharman and Newton. 
Dr. Wright notes that, in an excavation made at Marie Hill, 
north of Cheltenham, for brickearth, the following section was 
obtained j : 
FT. IN. FT. Ix. 
f Gryphaea-bed, ferruginous clay with 
G. obliquata - - '.} to 4 
Coral-band, clay with Montlivaltia ruyosa 1 
1 Hippopodium-bed, dark clay with Hip- 
a T; Q C, popodium ponderosum and Cardinia 
JUower Liias - < r , a n. \n 
j Listen - - - . -SO to 10 
Ammonite-bed, dark clay with pyritic 
fossils, Ammonites subplanicosta, A. den- 
sinodus, A. raricostatus, A. nodotiani/s, 
{_ &c. 
At Cleeve, near Cheltenham, the same beds were formerly 
worked for brickenrth ; and Dr. Wright mentions that there the 
finest specimens of Cardinia Listcri, Hippopodium pimdcrosum, 
- Pleurotomaria anfjlica and Ammonites raricostatus were obtained. 
The Rev. T. W. Norwood (now of Wrenbury) informed me he 
had obtained Ammonites Jamcsoni from excavations at the Old 
Royal Wells and New Ladies' College at Cheltenham. At the 
Hucklecote brickyard rolled specimens of this specie?, &c., occur 
in the gravel on tcp of the clay. 
Again at Cranham Pottery about 12 or 15 feet of blue 
micaceous clay, containing a few ferruginous nodules, has been 
exposed. There I obtained specimens of Ammonites striatus 
and A. Jamesoni ? Flower-pots, pans, drain-pipe?, jugs, &c. are 
, manufactured at this pottery, which dates back to the time of 
Queen Elizabeth, if not earlier. 
* Hull. Geol. Cheltenham (Mem. Gcol. Survey, Sheet 44), p. 15. 
t Ibid., p. IT. 
j Lias Ammonites, p. 55. 
