INFERIOR OOLITE: UFPINGHAM. 195 
South of Uppingham, near Lyddington and at Glaston, hard 
beds of a calcareous nature, approaching in character those which 
are seen at Desborough and which make so conspicuous a feature 
in the country to the southwards, are seen at the base of the 
Northampton Sand. At Uppingham these calcareous beds are 
about 2 feet thick. 
The lowest beds at Uppingham, as at many other points in the 
area, appear to be considerably less ferruginous than those above 
them, and are extensively quarried for building-purposes. A 
large quarry near the town gave the following section : 
FT. IN. 
f" Bear ing" (ironstone rock with the 
-j ,1 usual characters) - - - 8 
rtnam L t Hard bu i ld i ng . stone> o f a blue colour - 8 
| Mass of concretions or pebbles em- 
[_ bedded in a blue ironstone matrix - 6 
Upper Lias Clay. 
The following section was obtained in a well at the town of 
Uppingham : 
FT. IN. 
Lower B ^ uarine } Sand and Clay - - 12 
Northampton / Good ironstone rock - - 5 to 6 
Sand. \" Eock," building-stone - 3 
Upper Lias Clay - dug to 4 
A stone-pit just outside Uppingham, on the road to Stockerston, 
illustrates very admirably the gradual passage from the un- 
weathered blue rock at the base, up to the perfectly weathered, 
deep brown, " cellular " ironstone above, and the transition 
upwards of this ironstone into loose sands (Fig. 54). The thick- 
ness of the beds is about 20 feet.* 
The following section was noted by myself in the road-cutting 
on Black Swan Hill, near Thornhaugh : 
FT. IK. 
'False-bedded shelly rag (like Barnack ) 
Eag) 
"Cl 
Lincolnshire 
Limestone. 
Ferruginous brown oolite weathering 
rubbly - - - - }> 5 
Fine brown oolitic stone, with large I 
and coarse particles and criiioidal | 
fragments - 
At Whittering (or Wittering), east and west of the high-road, 
flaggy beds of oolite and of tough flaggy calcareous sandstone 
(yielding the slabs known as " Whitteriug Pendle ") were formerly 
worked. The beds came out in thick slabs adapted for piggeries, 
paving, &c. The shallow quarries have since been closed and 
levelled. 
S. Sharp recorded from the Whittering Pendle, Belenwites 
Gervillia, Hinnites, Lima, Lucina, JPerna, Pecten, &c.f 
* Judd, Geol. Rutland, pp. 108, 109. 
t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxix. p. 274. The organism named Aroides 
Stutterdi, at one time regarded as a Coral, then as a Plant, has since been considered 
to be a portion of an Echinoderm, J. S. Gardner, Geol. Mag., 186. p. 200. 
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