148 LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES: 
home of Hippupodium ponderosum. Numerous specimens of Cur- 
dinia Listeri have been found at Down Hatherley, Defford, and 
Eckington, and H. ponderosum is recorded from the neighbourhood 
of Bredon and Great Comberton. 
The fossils obtained by Strickland at Bredon, indicate the 
zones of A. semicostatus and A. obtusus, for he records A. Turneri, 
A. Broekei, A. Birchii, A. obtusus, and A. planicosta, also 
Rhyucholites, and fine examples of Pleurotomaria. Beds with 
A. obtusus have also been opened up on the west bank of the 
river Isborne, near Toddington, and at the reservoir near Childs 
Wickham. 
A brickyard between Defford and Besford, north of the main 
road, showed about 15 feet of blue calcareous shale with small 
nodules of limestone and selenite. Here under the guidance of 
Mr. T. J. Slatter, I obtained Ammonites semicostatus (near the 
base), Act&onina, Amberleya, Cerithium. Turritella Dunkeri, 
Pitonnillus, Avicula, Astarte, Cardinia Listeri and var. hybrida, 
Gryph&a cymbium, Rhynchonella, Acrosalenia, and spines of 
Echinoderms. These species were identified by Messrs. Sharman 
and Newton. Strickland discovered remains of Aptychi at 
Deflford.* 
At Drake's Broughton, north-west of Pershore, a large number 
of fossils have been obtained by Mr. T. J. Slatter, of Evesham.t 
The precise locality is a brick- and tile- yard west of Pigeon 
House, where there was exposed about 10 feet of grey shaly clay, 
with small limestone-nodules and larger red ironstone-nodule?. 
The assemblage of fossils is an interesting one ; it appears to 
represent the zone of Ammonites oxynotus, although it includes 
species that elsewhere occur both at higher and lower levels. 
Among the fossils recorded are the following ; 
X Ammonites Birchii. X Belemnites acutus. 
Loscombei. X Cardinia hybrida. 
nodotianus. 
oxynotus. 
Simpsoni. 
crassissima. 
X Hippopodium ponderosura. 
Leda Zieteni. 
x Slatteri. | X Rhynchonella variabilis. i 
A number of Gasteropoda, including species of Cerithium, 
Actceonina, &c., also Dentalium, have been found at this locality. 
Of the species marked x , examples were found during a visit 
T paid to the pit under the guidance of Mr. Slatter: they were 
named by Messrs. Sharman and Newton. 
At the Atlas Works by Pershore Station, bricks are made, 
smd the section showed a few feet of blue shaly and slightly 
calcareous clay, with occasional nodules of argillaceous limestone 
and ironstone. The beds are probably on a somewhat higher 
horizon than those exposed at Drake's Broughton ; but fossils are 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. i. p. 232, and Memoirs, p. 181. 
t Wright, Lias Ammonites, p. 375. 
