: LOWER LIAS: BARNSTONE. 171 
Ammonites Jamesoni and Hippopodiurn ponderosum were ob- 
tained at Great Dal by by Prof. Judd ; and from Littie Dalby he 
obtained A. Mauyencsti, Plicatula spinosa, and Montlivaltia ruyosa, 
forms which recall the beds at Fenny Compton. Fine specimens 
of A. armatus were also obtained at Little Dalby. 
As remarked by Professor Judd, the highest beds of the Lower 
Lias consist of dark blue clays, with much pyrites and many 
septaria, the latter acquiring a red colour and concentric structure 
fcy weatherilig, ami frequently containing thin laminae of Specular 
Iron. These beds abound with specimens of Ammonites capri- 
cornus, and also contain, but more rarely, Pentacrinns robustus 
and some other fossil;?. They are exposed in the railway-cutting 
at Galley Hill, near Whissendine.* 
Barnstone and the Vale of Bclvoir. 
North-east of Leicester the Lower Lias spreads over a con- 
siderable tract of country, an undulating drift-covered district 
known as the Wolds, on which are situated the villages of Walton- 
on -the- Wolds, Old Dalby-on- the -Wolds, Wiuieswold, and Stanton- 
on-the-Wolds.. 
Limestones have been quarried for lime-burning, &c., north of 
Hoton, on theNonnanton and Stanford Hills, between Normanton- 
upon-Soar and Rempstone, at Cortlingstock, East Leake Hills, 
near Widmerpool, Kinoulton, Owthorpe, and Cropwell Bishop. 
The beds at Hoton are much like those of Barrow-on-Soar, and 
similar organic remains (Saurian?, Fishes, and Crustaceans) have 
been found there and at Cortlingstock. f 
A deep boring made at Owthorpe, penetrated the basement- 
beds of the Lower Lias ;J a well sunk at the G.N. and L. &; 
N.W. Railway-station at Melton Mowbray, proved a thickness 
of 230 feet of Lower Lias, beneath a covering of Drift 38 feet 
thick ; and a boring at Scalford Road, near Melton Mowbray, 
proved 212 feet of Lower Lias (clay with thin bands of lime- 
stone), overlaid by 14U feet of Drift. (See p. 315.) 
The lowest beds of the Lias were exposed in the railway- cutting 
near Barnstone, where the junction with the Rhaetic Beds was 
noted by Mr. E. Wilson as follows : |] 
FT. Iy. 
j y . ( Thin-bedded blue limestones and brown 
ower ia,s. , days with Ammonites planorbis, 
Zone of Am. < r,,- 7 ' ***! 
, , rleuromya costata, Ostrea hassica, ana 
P L Modiola minima - - - about 10 
Rheeticj ^ ag I Compact concretionary bed of limestone - 3 to 7 
Beds 1 g e t.i es ["Earthy shales with nodules of limestone. 
* Geol. Eutland, pp. 60, 61. 
f See Horizontal Section, Geol. Survey, Sheet 48, and Explanation by H. H. 
Howell ; and Jukes, in Potter's History of Charnwood Forest, Appendix, p. 4. 
J E. Wilson, Midland Nat., vol. vi. p. 198, and Jukes-Browne, Geol. S.W. 
Xiincolnshirc, p. 150.. 
De Ranee, Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1883, p. 153. 
|| Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., TO!, xxxviii. p. 453 ; Jukes-Browne, Geol. S.W. 
Lincolnshire, p. 19. 
