98 LOWER OOLITIC EOCKS OF ENGLAND : 
The Inferior Oolite has been exposed under Claverton Church, 
and also at Beechen Cliff. At the last-named locality, as well as 
at Limpley Stoke, it appears to be largely composed of Corals, 
Trigonia, Ostrea, and Brachiopoda.* This is the case also at 
Charlcorabe. 
At the northern end of Beacon Hill, near Charlcombe, a quarry 
exposed pale oolitic and earthy limestones with many casts of 
shells; like the "hollow bed" before mentioned, that resembles 
the " Roach " of Portland. There was also a bed of compact 
limestone with faint brown arborescent markings, bearing a rude 
resemblance to those of the Cotham Marble. f The beds were 
much tumbled, and they yielded the following fossils : 
Ammonites. Trigonia (costate form). 
Phasianella. Rhynchonella obsoleta ? 
Pleurotomaria. spinosa. 
Isocardia. Terebratula Buckmani ? 
Lima pectiniformis. globata. 
Lithodomus. sphaeroidalis. 
Myacites. Serpula. 
Ostrea flabelloides. Isastrasa. 
Trichites. Thamnastraea defranciana. 
Similar beds were exposed south-west of Gwenfield Farm, 
Charlcombe ; and noi far below were micaceous sands with masses 
of sandy limestone containing Belcmnites. 
The fossil-beds in the limestones, here and at Midford, Lyn- 
combe, and Duncorn Hill, evidently belong to the Upper Division 
of the Inferior Oolite. Unfortunately Ammonites are very 
scarce, and but poorly preserved when found. 
At Hill House, north- west of Box, beds of tough iron-shot and 
sandy limestone, with Rhynchonalla spinosa were exposed. Here 
the beds were represented as Middle Lias on the Geological 
Survey Map. In the Box tunnel according to Mr. Etheridge the 
Inferior Oolite proved to be 30 feet thick. 
The Midford Sands are shown in the scarps below Grove 
Woods, east of Swainswick. Oolitic and sandy limestones were 
exposed to a depth of 10 feet in a quarry above Cross Leaze 
Farm, south of Woolley, but the beds have yielded no distinctive 
fossils. 
East of Weston, near Bath, and north of Primrose Hill, there are 
beds of brown oolitic limestone, much lime-washed, including the 
limestone with casts of shells, as nt Charlcombe. Again on Kel- 
ston Hill, below the Fuller's Earth, we find beds of limestone with 
Terelratula globata, &c., but no very good sections. 
A little west of the above-mentioned quarry near Weston, a 
well-sinking has recently been made, through a few feet of Mid- 
ford Sand into the Upper Lias Clay. The " sand-burrs " in the 
sand (which appears to be very thin in this neighbourhood), were 
examined by the Rev. H. H. Winwood, and from them he 
obtained the specimens, previously mentioned, of Ammonites 
* C. Moore, in Wright's Historic Guide to Bath, pp. 387-392. 
f H. B. W., Geol. Mag., 1892, p. 112. 
