236 LOWER OOLITIC ROOKS OF ENGLAND ! 
There it contains crushed specimens of Waldheimia ornitho- 
cephala. (See Fig. 36, p. 77.) The Lower beds were well exposed 
near New England, on the western slopes of Stout Hill, north- 
east of Milborne Port. Here nearly 50 feet of clay was to be 
seen in a lane-cutting ; and the following fossils were obtained 
by Mr. J. Rhodes and myself: 
Belemnites parallelus . 
Avicula costata. 
Miinsteri. 
Modiola Lonsdalei. 
Ostrea acuminata (abundant). 
gregaria. 
Pecten vagans. 
Rhynchonella varians. 
Small specimens of Ostrea acuminata were also abundant in 
the clays beneath the Fuller's Earth Rock, west of the Cock 
Inn, Holton. The Fuller's Earth Rock in this district consists of 
grey and buff earthy and sometimes shelly limestone, with bands 
of marly clay. Numerous quarries and lime-kilns occur along 
the outcrop, but the stone is now seldom burnt for lime, although 
employed for building walls and for mending some of the by- 
roads. 
Shallow pits have been opened in the rock near Clifton Wood 
to the south and south-east of Stoford, also west of Thornford ; 
and the beds are exposed in the road-cutting at Dancing Hill, 
south of Sherborne. They form a low ridge that extends through 
Sher borne Park, but the outcrop is displaced by faults in several 
places. Northwards from Henovcr Hill, by East Hill, and Stout 
Hill, they form a fine escarpment. The best sections are those 
exposed in the railway-cuttings north-east of Milborne Port 
station, and south-east of Shepton Montague. 
The general appearance of the rock and its fossils is somewhat 
similar to that presented by many sections of the Great Oolite in 
the midland counties, where those beds consists of pale earthy 
limestones and marls with numerous Lamellibranchs. 
The following is the section of beds exposed in the Railway- 
cutting at Laycock, north-east of Milborne Port station : 
FT. Iir. 
("Grey and brown earthy limestones, rubbly 
on top, and very fossiliferous - 8 or 9 
Thicker beds of buff earthy limestone, shelly 
in places : the shells weathering out on 
Puller's Earth j joint surfaces - 9 or 10 
Rock. \ Dark bluish-grer marls, with indurated 
bands of light bluish-grey earthy lime- 
stone. Casts of Myacites in natural 
position ; and Pholadomya (not so abun- 
dant as at Thornford) - - about 15 
Further north, between Charleton Horethorne, and S towel, 
and again west of the Cock Inn, Hollon, the Fuller's Earth Rock 
has been quarried, and numerous fossils may be obtained. 
The cutting near Shepton Montague showed the following 
beds : 
