LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
an opening in sandy beds like those described by Prof. Hull at 
Stanway Hill Barn (sec p. 137). The section, which I visited 
in company with Mr. T. J. Slatter, \vas as follows : 
Harford Sands, &c. 
Brown Bandy and loamy bed - 2 to 
Flaggy oolitic and sandy limestone ; 
with Nerincea, Lucina "belloiui, 
Hodiola, Pholadomya, Holectypus 
hemisplioericus, and Serpula (as near 
G-lendon) - - - 1 6 to 
Pale buff or whitish sand, with cal- 
careous concretions near top, below 
joint - .... 
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4 
The sand is dug for mortar-making. 
These beds reminded me of the Lincolnshire Limestone of 
Glendon which there overlies the Lower Estuarine Sands. They 
occur above the mass of the Lower Freestone, and are probably 
intimately connected with the Upper Freestone.* 
North of the sand-pit, freestone-beds, like those at the base of 
Snowshill quarry, were exposed. (See p. 139.) 
Slaty beds were formerly worked for roofing-purposes on the 
summit of the Cotteswold Hills, south-east of Snowshill, at a 
spot known as Hyatt's pits ; and there also were " slate quarries " 
further to the south-east. The stone-tiles have been used in the 
village of Snowshill together with Kyneton (Keynton) Slates 
from the Great Oolite. The former are very thick and heavy. 
Somewhat similar beds are exposed in the freestone quarries near 
Longborough, and there can be little doubt that these slaty beds 
belong to the upper part of the Lower Freestone, or to the 
horizon of the Oolite Marl. 
Near the Fish Inn, Broadway, the following section was shown : 
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"Eubbly limestone, oolitic - 2 to 3 
Softer earthy and oolitic limestones 
(? Oolite Marl) - -76 
Freestones -{ Hard shelly limestone, with Pecten per-~} 
sonatus - - - " L ^ fi 
Impure limestone - - f 
_Shelly and oolitic limestone - - J 
West of the Fish Inn, there is a large quarry, now abandoned, 
as there is no call for the stone. The freestones there are faulted 
on the west against the upper beds of the Inferior Oolite. We 
see rubbly Clypeus Grit, &c., with Nerincea, underlaid by a thin 
band of greenish-grey clay (as at Bourton Clump), brought 
abruptly, and at a high angle, against the lower beds. The 
section ol freestone was as follows : 
{Rubble and shattered beds 
False-bedded oolite in thin beds ; 
MasBive'lTed oToolite" including on top 
"Red bed," about 4 feet, and below 
" Yellow bed " - - 5 to 5 6 
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9 
9 6 
Hull, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 45. 
