146 LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES : 
cations, the bands at these localities belong rather to the Rhastic 
Beds than to the Lower Lias. The Monotu-\>e<\ of Garden Cliff 
appears to be on the same stratigraphical horizon. 
Under these circumstances it is not desirable to adopt the name 
" Strensham Series," which was proposed by Prof. Judd for 
the " Fish and Insect Limestones " that occur at the base of the 
Lower Liae.* Nor did he include in the series the overlying 
beds with Ammonites planorbis and A. Johnstoni, which form an 
essential part of the basement-beds of the Lower Lias at Stren- 
sham, Wilmcote, and other places. Were we, indeed, to employ 
the term " Strensham Series,"* we should include only a few bands 
of limestone, in some places of Lower Lias, in others of Rhaetic 
age. 
The section of the upper part of Wainlode Cliff, described by 
Strickland and the Rev. P. B. Brodie, is as follows! : 
FT. IN. 
f Top beds (concealed). 
| Dark clay - - 3 6 
Lower Lias -{ Blue limestone with Ostrea liassica and 
Modiola minima - - - 4 
L Yellow Shale - - Oft. 6m. to 1 
[" Insect Limestone. Grey and brown lami- 
Rhaetic Beds - < nated limestone - 5 
I Marly clay - - - - 5 3 
The westerly extension of the Lias is marked by the small 
outlier on the summit of Berrow Hill, two miles south-east of 
Keys-End Hill, the southern end of the Malvern range. Here 
only the basement-beds of the Lower Lins are found, above the 
Rhaetic Beds, and they have been quarried for lime-burning. 
Remains of Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus have been obtained 
from the quarries at Woolridge east of Hartpury, on Brockridge 
Common, Hill Croome, east of Boughton, nnd on Defford 
Common. On this account the strata were called the " Saurian 
FIG. 51. 
Section at Croome D'Abitot, near Perskore, Worcestershire. - 
c. Drift. Reddish-brown sandy clay with pebbles of quartz, &c. 
b. Grey marly clay, with thin bands of limestone (disturbed) "1 ,- ,- . 
a. Limestones and shales. j 
Depth of section, about 8 feet. 
* Geol. Rutland, &c. (Mem. Geol. Survey, Sheet 64), p. 58. 
f Strickland, Proc. Geol. Soc., vol. iv. p. 18; Murchison, Geol. Cheltenham, ed. 2, 
p. 48 ; Brodie, Fossil Insects, p. 57 ; Wright, Lias Ammonites, p. 18. 
