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LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
they are 30 feet thick ; and he observed that they could be traced 
as far south as Linch Farm. He considered that the sandy beds 
here and at Heyford represented the " Upper Lias Sands " of 
Gloucestershire ; but he subsequently deferred to the opinion of 
Mr. T. K. Polwhele that they belonged to the base of the Great 
Oolite.* The original view was the more correct one. (See 
Fig. 91, p. 324.) 
On the hill above Beesley's Barn, about one mile N.W. of 
Bloxham, the following section was exposed : 
FT. IN. 
"Brown sandy loam ... 06 
Flaggy beds of oolite, and calcareous sand 
stone with plant-remains - - 10 
Inferior Calcareous and mortar-like beds, with 
Oolite < ferruginous veins ... 36 
Series. Sandy ferruginous and concretionary bed 7 
Hard pebbly oolitic bed - 08 
Hard ferruginous and marly sandstones, pale 
and bluish ; Pecten at top - 1 10 
These beds are probably on the same horizon as those at New- 
bottle Spinney, (See p. 176.) 
* Geol. Woodstock, p. 17 ; see also Hull, Explan. of Hor. Sec., Sheets 71 and 72, 
p. 4. 
