8$ LOWER OOLITIC KOCKS OF ENGLAND : 
Toeality in 1885 the section was by no means so clear, but the 
beds that could be traced were as follows : 
FT. IN. 
'Oolitic shelly and slightly"! 
sparry limestones, and pale I , , 70 
oolite- - - - [ 
Yery sparry limestone - -J 
Brown sandy limestone, shelly and] 
slightly oolitic - ^ 10 
Oolitic freestones - - - J 
Inferior Oolite^ Massive beds of freestone (oolitic"] 
eparry rock), Terebratula gldbata, T. \nn Q 
Buclcmani ?, Ostre'i, Trigonia, Belem- j 
nites - -J 
Thick bedded Bandy oolitic limestones 
and sparry limestones, with Pecten - 10 
Sandy and sparry limestones and de- 
composed iron -shot limestones - 10 
(Midford Sand.) 
The most northerly pit at Doulting, worked by Mr. C. Trask, 
showed the following beds : 
FT. IK. 
Brown clay - - - - --10 to 20 
Pale oolitic stone, rubbly on top - - - 2 to 3 
TOP or CAKE BED, 2 feet good ; top, 2 or 3 feet poor, used 
for inside work - - - - - -50 
BAG, shelly, rarely used - 2 
WHITE BED or COPING BED - - 5 
BOTTOM BED ; coarse stone - - - 3 
The freestone here is a sparry and somewhat earthy limestone. 
There are few fossils Trigonia and Pecten dcmissus occur; 
and Charles Moore obtained, from the Eag Bed, a specimen of 
Ammonites Parkinsoni, now in the Bath Museum. More 
recently Mr. John Phillis, of Shepton Mallet, has obtained 
from the Inferior Oolite of Doulting, Natica bajocensis, Rhyn* 
chonella spinosa, R. spinosa var. obornensis, Terebratula globata, 
T. Morierei, and T. spacer oidalis.* The occurrence of T. Morierei 
is of especial interest, as it was first discovered in this country 
at Bradford Abbas by Mr. J. F. Walker and has since been 
found only rarely in one or two other localities. 
At Woodcombe's pit (an old quarry by Doulting church) 
the following beds were shown : 
FT. IN. 
Bubbly oolitic and sparry stone - - - 6 
Shelly oolites, 3 beds - 8 
Oolitic and shelly stone, good bed -26 
Sparry stone - - 4 6 
Here I obtained Nautilus, Pscudomelania, and Ostrea. 
Tlie freestone beds probably all belong to the Upper Division 
of the Inferior Oolite (the zone of Ammonites Parkinsoni), and can- 
not in any case be grouped with the Hum Hill Stone as suggested 
by Prof. Buckman.t 
* The fossils weie identified by Messrs. Sharmau and Newton, 
t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxx. p. 740. 
