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bluish shales, weathering grey and brown, with small nodules of 
earthy limestone and iron-concretions."* 
Kineton, Harbury, Fenny Compton, and Banbury. 
Turning again to the beds in Warwickshire, we find the Lower 
Lias limestones exposed in the railway -cuttings between Stratford - 
on-Avon and Eatington. The beds, as remarked by the Rev. 
P. B. Brodie, are much disturbed in places, but near the station 
north of Upper Eatington " the Lima and other beds are exposed 
in a cutting about 60 feet deep, consisting of the usual series of 
bands of limestone divided by shales." The beds dip in an 
easterly direction. 
At Kineton the railway-cuttings again show limestones, in 
places disturbed and broken. Thirty-two bands of blue lime- 
stone divided by shale, having a total thickness of 60 feet, were 
noticed by Mr. Brodie, and the fossils include Ammonites angu- 
latus, JAma Ucrmanni, L. gigantea, Gryph&a arcuata, Pecten 
pradoanuS) and Rhynchonclla calcicosta.\ 
We have thus in this neighbourhood, a development of lime- 
stones belonging to the zone of Ammonites angulatus, beds which 
are for the most part represented by clay near Evesham. 
At Harbury, between the railway-station and Bishops Itching- 
ton, there are extensive lime-works belonging to Messrs. Greaves, 
Bull, and Lakin. The limestone is used in the Blue Lias lime- 
and cement-works, the clay not being required. The quarries, 
opened to a depth of about 45 feet, show alternating bands of 
bluish-grey limestone (upwards of 30 in number), and marly clay 
and shale, the latter being a little thicker on the whole. There 
is much pyrites in the shales, and the bands of stone are iron- 
stained on the joints. The fossils obtained here, include Am- 
monites angulatus, Gryphcea arcuata (small specimens abundant), 
Lima gigantea, Plicatula, Rhynchonella calcicosta, and Plesio~ 
faurus (Eretmosaurus) rugosus.% 
The lowest beds of the Lias are not well exposed in the 
railway-cutting, but beneath the series of limestones which are 
shown between the railway-station and the tunnel on the north, 
there is some thickness of blue clays, which rest on the White 
Lias. In the railway-cutting the following beds may be seen : 
FT. IN. 
{40 or 50 bands of limestone, alternating with 
clay or shale - - - about 50 
Blue clays and shales (not well exposed) about 30 
Rhsetic Beds. White Lias, &c. 
* Hull, Geol. Woodstock (Mem. Geol. Survey, Sheet 45, S.W.), p. 9. 
f Warwick Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc., 1875, 39th Ann. Keport, pp. 6, 7. 
$ llecorded in Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. ii. p. 285 ; Brodie, Warwick Nat. Hist, 
and Arch. Soc., 39th Ann. Keport, 1875. 
