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LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND 
Druidical, but doubtless sepulchral " Rollrioh (or Rollright) 
stones," situated on the hill north-east of Little Rollright 
village.* I have noticed similar beds in quarries north-west of 
Little Rollright, and again near Heythrop. Mr. Beesley also 
referred to the decomposition of the sandy limestone as resulting 
in a reddish sand. (See Fig. 92, p. 329.) 
FIG. 47. 
Section south-west of Chadlington Down Farm, south of Chipping 
Norton. 
I 1 1 
l (/ 
fT ' > 1 
i7* 
1 
1 I' ' 
) 
- A [ 
'v. 
FT. 
7. Brown loamy soil - 
- 
IK. 
9 
Great 
Oolite 
Series. 
Chipping 
Norton 
6. Compact grey and slightly oolitic lime- 
stone ; -with rubbly bed (5) at base, that 
may be due to the subterranean action 
of springs flowing over the surface of 
the clay beneath ... 
4. Grey clay, passing down into brown 
clay ; with layer at base (3) containing 
lumps of hard and rather cherty lime- 
stone, probably derived from beds 
below ..... 
| 2. False-bedded limestone, shelly and 
| oolitic in places. 
1. False-bedded brown sandy limestone, 
Limestone. crinoidal and finely oolitic in places ; 
[_ some layers more sandy than others - 
10 
Proceeding southwards we find the Chipping Norton Lime- 
house exposed beneath the Great Oolite Series south-west of 
Chadlington Down Farm. Some curious bee-hive shaped 
excavations are occasionally found in the surface-strata (2 to 7) 
at this locality.t They are probably pre-historic. Here the 
Chipping Norton Limestone is shelly, oolitic and crinoidal in 
* Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. T. p. 179 ; and Hudleiton, Ibid., p. 380. See also 
Phillips, Geol. Oxford, p. 55. Some blocks of similar rock have been employed for 
the monument erected af Churchill by the Earl of Ducie in memory of William 
Smith, who was born at that Tillage ; see Geol. Mag., 1892, p. 94. 
f See Essex Naturalist, vol. i. p. 265. 
