154 LIAS OP ENGLAND AND WALES : 
the zone in which A. planicosta and Hippopodium pondcrosum 
appear.* This is certainly an unusual range for A. angulatus. 
Bengeworth brickyard at Evesham showed a fine section of 
about 25 feet of dark shaly and ferruginous clay, covered with 
gravel, &c. Here may be found Ammonites Charmassei, A\ 
semicostatus, Pleurotomaria. anglica, Avicula incequivalvis, Cardinia 
Listeri var. hybrida, Gryphcea arcuata, Ostrea liassica, Lucina 
limbata, Extracrinus, &c. The species were identified by 
Messrs. Sharrnan and Newton. 
Eastwards, at Bretforton, the Lias was penetrated to a depth of 
300 feet in search of coal. (See p. 300.) 
At Sheekill's brickyard, Pebworth, we find about 8 feet of blue 
shaly clay, with small and large irregular nodules of argillaceous 
limestone, capped by brown clayey soil with Drift pebbles. The 
beds here are regarded, by Messrs. Tomes and Slatter, as the local 
zone of Ammonites sauzeanns, for that species is common : but 
it may be remarked that the forms approach closely to A. bisul- 
catus. Among other fossils are A. semicostatus, Gryphcea, Mytilus, 
and Montlivaltia. 
Along the railway towards Shipston-on-Stour we find occasional 
cuttings in blue clay. That by the high road between the town 
and Chipping Campden, yielded Ammonites semicostatus, Gryphcea, 
arcuata, and Pecten. The clay contains much selenite, and 
occasional bands and small nodules of limestone. 
Honeybourne brickyard, near the railway-station, showed about 
10 feet of blue shaly and slightly calcareous clay, with rusty bands, 
and irregular nodules of limestone and ferruginous concretions. 
The clay was contorted in places, probably by Glacial action, as 
is the case with beds exposed at the surface north of this region. 
The fossils found here include : 
Ammonites bisulcatus. 
Brookei. 
} densinodus. 
f raricostatus. 
Turner!. 
Hippopodium ponderosum. 
Gryphsea. 
Lima. 
Mytilus. 
t Montlivaltia rugosa. 
The beds belong to the same horizon as those exposed at 
Marie Hill, Cheltenham. (Seep. 143.) Fine specimens of Pleuro- 
tomaria were obtained by Mr. J. "Windoes from this locality. 
Ammonites raricostatus has been recorded from the neighbourhood 
of Ilmington, and Hippopodium ponderosum from Todeuham. 
The cutting on the Great VVestern Railway at Aston Magna, 
revealed Lower Lias clay and shale containing Ammonites arma- 
tus, Belemnites, Pleurotomaria anglica, Leda, Plicatula spinosa, 
Spiriferina verrucosa, Waldheimia numismalis, and other fossils, 
forming an assemblage that may be parallelled with that obtained 
from the zones of Ammonites Jamesoni, &c., by Mr. Beesley at 
Fenny Compton. The beds at Aston Magna were described by 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.. vol. xxxiv. p. 179; gee also Moore, Ibid., vol. xxiii. 
p. 511. 
f Given on the authority of Mr. R. F. Tomes : the other species were named by 
Messrs. Sharman and Newton. 
