INFERIOR OOLITE SERIES: EASTERN COTTESWOLDS. 143 
Large freestones quarries have been opened to the west of the 
village of Bourton-on-the-Hill, where the following beds were 
exposed : 
Lower Freestone< 
False-bedded oolite ; WHITE BOCK : 
burnt for lime, and used for rough 
inside walling - - 11 to 
Earthy sand ... 
Hard and rough oolitic limestone, with 
irregular ferruginous bands ; RED 
BED, used for foundations 
Buff oolite ; YELLOW BED ; good free- 
stone - 
Ferruginous oolitic limestone with 
irregular cavities 
Brown sandy and oolitic limestones ; 
BOTTOM BEDS - 5 to 
FT. IN. 
12 
2 
6 
- 10 

Ragstones 
Harford Sands 
and 
Upper Freestone. 
T obtained a specimen of Hinnites abjectus from this quarry. 
North of Bourton Clump, the following aection was exposed : 
FT. IN. 
Rubble of oolite with Homomija, Phola- 
domya, Pecten, Rhynchonella, Tere~ 
Iratula globata, &c. - - 5 
Blue, brown, and grey racy clay 6 
Calcareous, sandy, and fermginous 
rock - - - - 3 
Grey and brown clay - 1 
White and yellow sand with concre- 
tionary band of calcareous sandy rock 3 
Brown sandy oolitic rock - 3 
^Shelly oolite . - - -56 
These argillaceous and sandy beds are no doubt on the horizon 
of the strata seen east of Snowshill, 'at Stanway Hill Barn, and 
again near Harford, north-west of Bourton-on-the- Water ; they 
represent the Harford Sands and Upper Freestone. 
The thickness of the Inferior Oolite, proved in a well at the 
Worcester Lodge, Batsford Park, north-west of Bourton-on-the- 
Hill, was J 60 feet. The Oolite Marl was not observed in this 
immediate neighbourhood, but its presence at Condicote was noted 
by Prof. Hull. 
On the hill above Longborough, we again find good sections 
of the Lower Freestones as follows : 
Fissile and false-bedded shelly oolite, like the slaty 
beds of Hyatt's Pits ; with pisolitic band near the 
middle - 
White freestone - - - - 6 to 
Freestone, shelly in places, with concretionary ferru- 
ginous patches and veins (Red and Yellow free- 
stones) - - - - -90 to 
FT. IN. 
10 
The stone is here mostly quarried for road-metal. 
Further south there is a quarry to the east of Banks Fee Farm, 
that showed from 18 to 20 feet of pale shelly limestones, with 
Ostrea, the beds were more or less oolitic, and minutely current- 
bedded. The higher layers were fissile like the slaty beds of 
