INFERIOR OOLITE SERIES: EASTERN COTTESWOLDS. 
An important section has been exposed at Westington Hill 
quarry, about two miles south of Chipping Campden; it is as 
follows : 
Upper Freestone 
Beds. 
Oolite Marl -< 
Lower Freestone' 
Yellowish sand, in pockets. 
Thin-bedded oolite and fissile cal- 
careous sandstone 
Pale marly stone, with occasional grains 
of oolite .... 
Bubbly marl and clay ... 
Hard oolite - 
Indurated pale marl and marly stone, 
with scattered grains of oolite ; with 
seam of clay near the middle 
"Hard brown false-bedded shelly oolite, 
with closely-packed grains. Stone 
used for planking, covering drains, 
culverts, and road-mending - 5 6 to 
Irregular ferruginous Handy and cal- 
careous bed with fossils : called 
" Ironstone " - - 1 6 to 
Oolitic freestones: 
White Post, used for building 6 to 
Yellow freestone, with bored-bed in 
the middle of the stone ; used for 
earring - - - 5 to 
Freestone - ... 
Eagstone and sandy and ferruginous 
beds proved by boring to depth of 
44 feet. 
FT. IN. 
From the Oolite Marl, I obtained a number of fossils, including 
Natica cincta, Pleurotomaria, Lima pectiniformis, Lucina bellona, 
Ostreaflabelloides, Pholadomya, Rhynchonella subobsoleta ? Tere- 
bratula fimbria, T. maxillata, &c.* I was informed also that 
Ammonites were found in these beds (a fact subsequently confirmed 
by Mr. T. J. Slatter), and a good specimen of Ammonites 
humphriesianus was forwarded to me. This came, as I was told by 
the workman who obtained it, from the top layer of pale marly 
and oolitic limestone. These uppermost beds clearly belong to the 
Upper Freestone and Harford Sands. The fossils were named by 
Messrs. Sharman and Newton. 
At Stanley's quarry, north-east of Northwick Hill Farm, near 
Blockley, about 30 feet of oolite has been exposed. The top layers 
are much lime-washed, and these beds are too hard, as a rule, to be 
worked as freestone ; they are burnt for lime, and used for building 
walls, and for road-metal. The lower layers, which are more false- 
bedded, are quarried for freestone. West of Blockiey, the Oolite 
Marl, with Terebratula fimbria. and T. maxillata, has been 
observed. 
The beds on Ebrington Hill, much resemble those of Bredon. 
No sections of the Midford Sand have been observed on the 
borders of the hill, although Mr. Howell has stated that these 
beds " may be concealed in the broken ground, round the edge of 
the tumbled Inferior Oolite that caps the hill,"f 
* S also Judd, Geol. Eutland, p. 15. 
t Hull, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 30. 
