LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES : 
large field south of the White Lackington road, where all the zones 
were observed.* 
Near the Sevinglons, at Boxtone Hill, Hurcot, to the east of 
Atherstone, and at Stocklinch Ottersey, quarries have been 
opened in Middle and Upper Lias. At Shepton Beauchamp the 
Lcpt(B?ia-beds, Saurian and Fish Beds, and Upper Cephalopoda 
beds have been noticed by Moore, and he has observed them 
also to the north-east of Yeovil, in a quarry overlooking the 
village of Rimpton. 
A section south of Shepton Beauchamp church, showed nearly 
7 feet of the Upper Lias Basement Beds, but it did not differ 
materially from sections at Tortwood Hill. Moore records two 
species of Trochocyathns from the Upper Lias at this locality. 
The Upper Lias is also shown at Stoke pit, east of Holy Tree, 
between West Stoke and South Petherton ; and at Norton, near 
Ham Hill (see p. 204). 
West of Yeovil, by Alvington, and Brympton, micaceous sandy 
shales are seen, and here the Upper Lias forms a broad tract at 
the foot of the escarpment formed by the Sands at the base of 
the Inferior Oolite ; while the Basement Beds extend towards the 
Middle Lias escarpment in a thin covering, that coincides roughly 
with the dip-slope (2 to 4), over the country through Preston to 
Brimsmoor Tree. (See Fig. 66, p. 206.) 
The Stone-beds have been opened up east of Montacute station, 
where the following section was to be seen: 
FT. IN. 
T . f Micaceous sandy clay - - -.50 
Upper Lias - 1 pale limestone / '. . fi {) 
Middle Lias - Rock Bed. 
Here, and also between Lufton and Lower Odcombe, the lime- 
stones at the base of the Upper Lias are 3 feet 6 inches thick, and 
these beds are separated by little or no clay. Near Yeovil they 
become of sufficient importance to have been quarried for building- 
purposes. 
These beds are seen above the Marlstone in quarries west and 
south-east of Brimsmoor Tree, and north-west of Preston. They 
are about 3 feet 6 in. thick, consisting of light earthy and rubbly 
limestones, overlaid by about 4 feet of brown ferruginous loamy 
clay. From these quarries the following fossils were obtained by 
Mr. J. Rhodes and myself, and named by Messrs. Sharman and 
Newton : 
Ammonites communis. 
crassus. 
heterophyllus. 
serpentinus. 
Belemnites. 
Lima. 
Rhynchonella. 
Serpula. 
Pentacrinus. 
* Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 135; see also S. S. 
Bnckman, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlv. p. 450. 
