UPPER LIAS: YEOVIL, 259 
The Upper Lias stone here is sometimes used for the founda- 
tions of new roads, paths, &c., but the quarries are opened mainly 
for the Marlstone. 
Near Yeovil, at the Green Quarry, on the Mudford Road, to 
the south of Picketty, pale-earthy and iron-stained white limestone, 
known as the Yeovil Stone, was formerly quarried for building- 
purposes. The beds are from 3 ft. 6 in. to 6 ft. thick. The Stone 
(together with that from Ham Hill) was used in building Yeovil 
church, and in the construction of the Cemetery buildings. 
South of Picketty, the stone was exposed beneath 12 feet 
of laminated micaceous shale with calcareous bands, the beds 
becoming bluer and more shaly towards the base. These beds 
above the Yeovil Stone, are very similar to the micaceous sandy 
shales, which in a lane-cutting by Picketty, are shown beneath 
the Marlstone ; that rock being there brought near the surface 
by a fault. Formerly there was a brickyard at Picketty where 
5 feet of clay was worked above the Yeovil Stone, the beds having 
a westerly dip. 
At the Union Pit, the beds seen were as follows : 
FT. IN. 
(" Loam - - - - 5 
Upper Lias - -I Micaceous sandy shale - - 4 
I White limestone - 3 (> 
Middle Lias - Marlstone - 1 ft. in. to 1 6 
The sandy micaceous shales above the Yeovil Stone, contain 
thin indurated layers of calcareous sandstone and rotten fer- 
ruginous sandstone, locally known as "Ingotton." Owing to their 
partially pervious nature, they have given much trouble at the 
cemetery, where their thickness is about 50 or 60 feet. The 
entire thickness of these ahaly beds must be about 120 feet. 
At Harwood's brick-kiln, about 15 feet of brown laminated 
micaceous sandy loam was exposed ; and abont a mile further 
north, another brickyard, in Brickyard Lane, showed 6 feet of 
bluish-grey slightly micaceous clay, with occasional nodules of 
blue limestone, resting on micaceous marly clay, containing a 
" lism " or layer of sandy ferruginous limestone with Pectcn 
jnlianus. A well penetrated the beds to a further depth of 38 feet, 
without touching any stone. No other organic remains were to be 
found ; and I failed to find any outcrop of the Marlatone (Rock- 
bed) to the north-east. The clays at Brickyard Lane are 
" heavier " than those at Harwood's kiln, while to the south-east 
the beds (on a lower horizon) are still heavier; the dip is here 
westerly, corresponding with that E. of Picketty. The beds 
unfortunately like those (which they much resemble) in the brick- 
yards at Mudford, afford no distinctive fossil remains ; laminated 
sandy shales here as elsewhere being bad preservers of organic 
remains. The beds at Mudford belong to the Middle Lias; those 
now described, are no doubt Upper Lias, judging by the evidence 
of a well-boring at the Yeovil gas-works, where the Marlstone 
was reached at a depth of 1 32 feet, 
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