Eagstones 
INFERIOR OOLITE : HOOK NORTON. 157 
FT. IN. 
Brown sandy and loamy soil - 3 6 
Yellowish-brown and white sands - 2 6 
Hard flaggy oolitic limestone ; with 
lignite and plant-remains 
Brown oolitic limestone, becoming 
sandy and conglomeratic (?) at the 
base - - - - - 1 3 
Northampton TSlightly oolitic and shelly limestone 
Beds ? \ Trigonia and lignite - - 7 
From limestones beneath the sandy beds of Tadmarton Camp 
and Milcomb Hill, Mr. Walford records Pecten demissus, P. lens, 
P. pcrsonatus, Trigonia Brodiei, Montlivaltia lens, &c.* Possibly 
the bottom layer of limestone (above noted) may belong to this 
lower portion of the Inferior Oolite Series ; the section at any 
rate may be compared with that in the Hook Norton railway- 
cutting (p. 155). 
At " Utley Hill " on the west of Hotley Hill Farm, and on the 
western side of the road leading towards Traitor's Ford, the 
following section was shown : 
FT. IN. 
{Kubbly oolitic beds - - ~\ 
%"bayr*pHh o 
Corals ; pebbly at base -J 
vuui/e. | jj or th am pton f Hard sandy and ferruginous 
L x Beds. \ limestones - 4 
Prof. Judd, Mr. Walford, and Mr. J. Windoes have obtained 
a number of fossils from this pit, but the horizons have not in all 
cases been clearly stated, f Isastrcea Conybearei, Lithodomi, &c. 
occur in the pebbly bed, an equivalent to which is seen beneath 
the Clypeus Grit at Fawler. The lower beds have yielded the 
following species : 
Ammonites corrugatus. Trigonia Brodiei. 
- opalinus. - striata. 
Nerinsea cingenda. Rhynchonella cynocephala. 
- pisolitica. Acrosalenia. 
Pholadomya fidicula. Montlivaltia lens. 
Large specimens of Nautilus also occur. The assemblage 
compares well with that recorded from Brailes. 
Prof. Judd states that in the pits opened at the summit of 
Brailes Hill, there are beds of white oolitic freestone (slightly 
siliceous), which by weathering assume a somewhat fissile character. 
Among these upper beds there is a white, coarsely oolitic rock, 
graduating into a regular freestone undistinguishable from that of 
the Lower Freestones of Gloucestershire ; in its upper part this 
bed becomes shelly and contains numerous Corals and fragments 
of Echinoderms. Below, there is an irregular bed of brown sand 
and good ironstone, presenting the usual features of the 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxix. p. 228. 
f Judd, Geol. Rutland, p. 21; Walford, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxix. 
pp. 234, 242, 244 ; S. S. Buckman, Inf. Ool. Ammonites, pp. 52, 53. 
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