LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALE* 
more saady layers. Still lower beds are exposed in the road- 
cutting west of Frees church, and in old pits and slipped ground 
to the south. These comprise fissile, sandy, and micaceous beds, in 
places interbedded with micaceous loam, and passing down into 
more argillaceous strata (with nodule* of earthy limestone) that 
throw out springs. These beds have been exposed to a depth of 
20 feet. They contain Belemnites and Ammonites margaritatus, 
the latter poorly preserved. 
At one spot on the hill south of Frees church, there was 
formerly a brickyard. The surface-beds were of a clayey 
nature, but there was no fossil evidence to prove their age, for 
being on slightly higher ground than the fossiliferous beds at 
Frees church, it is possible there may be traces of Upper 
Lias. The section showed 10 feet of fissile, slightly calcareous 
and micaceous loamy beds, with Belemnites, Pentacrinus, and 
small hard nodules ; and the strata passed downwards into clay. 
The following fossils from the Middle Lias of Frees, for the 
most part in the collection of Mr. Henry Ikin, were (with three 
exceptions) identified by Messrs. Sharman and Newton : 
Hybcdus. 
*Ammonites Engelhardti. 
ft margaritatus. 
f spinatus. 
Belemnites elongatus p 
vulgar! s ? 
Cerithium. 
Chemnitzia. 
Pitonnillus conicus. 
Pleurotomaria helicinoides. 
Turbo aciculus. 
Dentalium. 
Area. 
Astarte. 
fAvicula novemcostse. 
Cardium truncatum ? 
fGryphffia cymbium. 
t gigantea. 
Hinnites velatus. 
Leda. 
Lima pectinoides. 
Macrodon intermedius. 
*Modiola scalprum. 
Ostrea. 
f Pecten asquivalvis. 
dentatus P 
lunularis P 
*Pholadomya ambigua, 
J Simpsoni. 
Pleuromya costata. 
Plicatula spinosa. 
Unicardium cardioides ? 
f-Rhynchonella acuta. 
rimosa. 
. variabilis r 
Terebratula punctata. 
Waldheimia quadrifida. 
resupinata ? 
JAnnelide tube. 
Pentacrinus gracilis. ^ 
Eryon. 
* Identified by the Rev. T. W. Norwood. 
"I" Recorded also by Murchison. 
% Obtained by H. B. Woodward. 
