MIDDLE LIAS : CHIPPING CAMPDEN. 217 
the south of Winchcomb (see Fig. 68), the beds have been seen, 
and some fossils have been obtained ;* but the outcrop is largely 
concealed by detritus from the hills above. On Burrell Hill, 
east of Buckland, and near Chipping Campden, the beds were 
formerly worked, but most of the quarries nre no\v obscured. 
The outcrop is, however, shown by a bold escarpment. 
The Marlstone has been quarried in places north-west of 
Ashton-under-Hill, where the following section was to be 
seen : 
FT. IN. 
Soil, brown loarn, &c. - - 2 
Pale grey, flaggy and sandy limestones, shelly 
in places ; Belemnites, Pleuromya, Rhyn- 
chonella tetrahedru -20 
Rubbly bed of calcareous sandstone having 
the appearance of " Broken Beds ;" Belem- 
Middle Lias nites - - - 1 6 
(Marlstone, <( Hard grey and brown limestone with Pecten 
&c.) 
(pquivalvis - - - - -26 
* * * 
Ferruginous and calcareous brown sandstone. 
Flaggy calcareous sandstones. 
Sandy beds, loams, and clays (as at Kbring- 
ton). 
The Marlstone is used for rough walling and road-metal. 
The lower beds were exposed in a lane-cutting north-west of 
the village. There the lower rubbly beds of Marlstone (above 
the Ferruginous sandstone) yielded Ammonites spinatus, Belem- 
nites, Gryphcea gif/antca, Pecten cequivalvis, Avicula, Rhynclionclla 
tetrakedra, &c. 
A section of the lower beds of the Middle Lias was exposed in 
the deep banks of a lane east of Ebrington, leading to Foxcote 
Farm: it was as follows: 
FT. IN. 
f Yellow micaceous sands - - 4 
I Flaggy calcareous and very micaceous sand- 
stone ; Avicula inccquivalvis, Pleuromya -20 
M' Irll J Micaceous sands with Pholadomya, Pleu~ 
I romya, Modiola, more or less fragile - about 20 
I Flaggy micaceous and calcareous sandstone, 
impersisteiit or locally hardened - - 1 
[_ Micaceous sands - - - 6 
(Spring thrown out by clays.) 
The Marlstone has been quarried at various points around 
Ebrington Hill, and Mr. Howe! I notes that a s^mall outlier of 
this rock occurs t Meon Hill, to the north-east of Mickleton. 
He states that on the eastern escarpment, between Chipping 
Campden and Stow on-the-Wold, the llock-bed becomes 
gradually thinner, and the escarpment gradually disappears.! The 
rock was quarried at Cadley Hill, south-west of Aston Magna ; 
further &outh near Stow-on-the-Wold, the beds resemble those seen 
* Se Hull, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 23. 
f Ibid,, p. 19. 
