INFERIOR OOLITE SERIES: STROUD. 121 
In the tunnel of the Great Western Railway, the beds exposed, 
near the Stroud valley, were Fuller's Earth resting on Inferior 
Oolite ; and these dipped towards the hill, being followed by the 
Great Oolite, and being only slightly faulted in one place.* In 
the Frarapton Cutting the Ragstones, yielding Tcrebratula globata 
and Rhynchonella spinosa, were exposed. 
At a quarry, by the first milestone, on the Bath road, beyond 
Nailsworth, the following section was noted : 
FT. Is. 
"Pale rubbly and fissured oolite - - about 8 
Hard white oolite, with Terebratula globata, 
Pholadomya, Clypeus Ploti, Nerincea Guisei - 1 10 
Bagstones ^ Hard brown oolite, with Trigonia, Lima pectini- 
formis, Rhynchonella spinosa, &c. - -26 
Shelly oolite, with T. globata, Rhynchonella 
l_ concinna, and Trigonia - - 6 
Upper f White oolitic freestone, very hard, and bored at 
Freestone. \ top ... seen to depth of 7 
The freestones burn to a good lime ; while the ragstones here yield the 
best weatherstone. . 
It is noteworthy that at this locality we have no trace of the 
Gryphite Grit; and the Oolite Marl is hardly discernible, so that 
the Upper and Lower Freestones practically form one division, 
that is estimated to be about 35 feet thick. 
The Lower Freestone, as remarked by Witchell, has been 
largely quarried at Ball's G^ccn, near Nailsworth, where galleries, 
a quarter of a mile long, have been driven into the hill. The 
Pea Grit (3 feet thick), as remarked by Mr. Hudleston, has been 
well exposed at Longford Mill, east of Nailswortb, and has- 
yielded several species of Nerincea. The Lower Limestones attain 
a thickness of about 25 feet ; and the Gloucestershire Cephalo- 
poda Bed about 14 feet.f 
North-east of Stroud, the beds may be studied at Swift's Hill, 
near Knap Farm, and on the spur that separates Painswick Slade 
from Painswick, at the Frith quarry, and at Longridge, S.E. of 
Pains-wick.J 
At the Frith quarry, the Upper Freestone and Oolite Marl 
are not separable, for the latter consists of oolitic marl, with 
bands of hard pale earthy and fine oolitic limestone, merging 
upwards into the Upper Freestone. Together these beds attain 
a thickness of upwards of 30 feet. They yield in some abundance 
a variety of Rhynchonella cynocephala and R. Tatei, the former 
occurring in quite the highest part of the beds, where it was found 
by Mr. P. N. Datta, who accompanied Mr. Witchell and myself. 
On the spur of Inferior Oolite, that extends to Standish Hill 
or Hare?field Beacon, Randwick Hill, and Ruscombe, there are 
numerous exposures of the beds, including the quarries at White 
Hill (Whiteshill), the Horsepools, Painswick Hill, and Kims- 
bury Castle. 
* J. H. Taunton, Proc. Cottesw. Club, vol. T. p. 255 ; Ibbetson, Eep. Brit. Assoc. 
for 1846, Sections, p. 61. 
t Witchell, Geol. Stroud, pp. 46, &c. ; Hudleston, Gasteropoda of Inf. Ool, p. 60. 
j See also Hudleston, Inf. Ool. Gasteropoda, p. 63. 
See Witchell, Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. vii. p. 117, nd vol. viii. p. 44. 
