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LOWER OOLITIC HOCKS OF ENGLAND : 
micaceous sands, with concretions of calcareous sandstone, were to be 
seen. Selemnites, Myacites, and Serpulse occur in them. The beds rest 
on blue micaceous loamy clay, and are overlaid by tumbled masses of the 
Lower Freestones, including flaggy and shelly oolite, and beds like the 
" yellow freestone " of the northern Cotteswolds. Pecten p&rsonatus, 
and Pholadomya fidicula were found. 
The junction with the Sands was not clearly exposed, but there was no 
evidence of the occurrence of the Pea Grit nor of the Gloucestershire 
Cephalopoda Bed, although both may be represented in point of time. 
The full thickness of the Lower Freestone cannot here be estimated, 
for we find little more tban 20 feet of the beds along tbe line of railway. 
Evidently there is a considerable fault near by, for the next cutting 
westwards (s) shows the Clypeus Grit, faulted against the Oolite Marl 
and top of the Lower Freestone, and we have no more evidence of Lower 
Freestone along the line of railway until we reach Syreford, except 
perhaps at the base of the cutting east of Notgrove. (Fig. 43.) 
Proceeding further west to near Syreford, the following beds were 
exposed in the cutting east of Andoversford : 
Lower Free- 
stone. 
("Micaceous and ferruginous sands more 
or less indurated at different levels, 
^ yielding few fossils : Lima and Tere- 
bratula - ... about 
^False-bedded white oolite. 
FT. IN. 
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This sandy series was originally grouped with the Midford Sands on 
the Geological Survey Map ; but the occurrence of the Oolite below clearly 
disproved this view ; and Mr. Buckman at first regarded these sands 
as equivalent to the Harford Sands, which further west come beneath 
the Gryphite Grit. Later on section? on the railway between Andovers- 
ford and Ohedworth disclosed, south of Frogmill Hill, sections of 
hardened calcareous sand and rubble resting on Oolite, belonging to the 
Lower Freestone series, and there can be little doubt, as Mr. Buckman 
points out, that the sandy beds and underlying oolite of Syreford belong 
to this division. 
The Oolite Marl is well shown in the cutting east of Notgrove railway 
station, where the following beds were shown : 
Harford Sands 
and Upper 
Freestone. 
FT. IN. 
f Bubble- - - - 3 to 4 
J Yellow sand ... about 1 
Sandy fissile stone - - 3 
k. Fissile marly and stony beds - 7 
Brown shelly clay and marl - - 3 
Harder oolitic beds, with irregular 
bluish patches - - -40 to 50 
Soft bluish oolitic marls, with in- 
durated shelly and ochreous bands : 
Nutica cincta, Ceromya concentrica, 
Lucina, Lima, Terebratula fimbria, 
Oolite Marl -i Rhynchonella sulobsoleta, Corals 
18 Oto 20 
Hard marly and oolitic limestone, and 
soft shaly marl, with Lima and many 
Brachiopoda; Rhynchonella Lycetti, 
Terebratula curvifrons, T. maxillata, 
T. plicata, T. Whitakeri, Waldheimia 
Leclcenbyi, &c. - - -43 
Lower Free- \ Hard brown oo]ite (at base of cufct i ng ). 
stone - J 
Many of the fossils mentioned, and others, have been recorded by Mr. 
Buckman. 
