288 LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
The Lower Beds of the Great Oolite have been exposed near 
Smith's Cross, south-west of Elkston, and again at Briary HilJ, 
east of Nettlecomb, near Birdlip, where we find in sequence the 
following beds : 
FT. IN. 
f" False-bedded shelly oolite - 4 
~ n ,., | Fissile shelly, sandy and marly oolite, 
U jatuolito , passing down into thin false-bedded 
(Lower Division). ^ f ayers of calcareous sandstone and 
[_ oolite (of Stoiiesfield type) - about 10 
Ostrea and Rhynchonella concinna occur here. Similar beds, 
comprising fissile shelly and oolitic limestone, with a clayey band, 
were exposed in a quarry west of Perrot's Brook, and south-east 
of Bagendon. 
A quarry west of Baunton, and a little south of Trinity Mill, 
exposed a series of flaggy and sandy oolites and limestones, with 
an intermediate marly oolitic band (4 feet thick). From this band 
of marl, I obtained the following fossils : 
Asfcarte (cast). 
Lima duplicata. 
Lucina bellona. 
Modiola imbricata. 
Pholadomya deltoidea P 
Heraulti. 
Trigonia. 
Terebratula maxillata. 
Ostrea Sowerbyi. 
These beds come above the White Limestone, and the fossil- 
bed may be compared with that found east of Daglingworth 
(See p. 286.) 
North-east of Baunton there is a quarry showing nearly 15 
feet of thin bedded oolite, resting on false-bedded buff shelly and 
sandy oolite. These beds, mapped by the Geological Survey as 
Forest Marble, belong to the Upper Division of the Great Oolite 
(Kemble Beds). 
South-east of Calmsden, a quarry between the railway and the 
high-road, showed the following sequence : 
FT. IN. 
fShelly oolitic limestone - - - 10 
Brown sandy marl with Ostrect - -05 
Forest J Ostfrea-limestone, with Lima cardiiformis I 
Marble. J Irregular rubbly limestone, and brown 
J sandy and "racy" marls; with Ostrea 
[_ Sowerbyi (abundant) - 2 6 
Great Oolite [" Hard brown oolitic and shelly limestone - 1 6 
(Upper < Yellow rubbly marl - 8 
Division). [ Brown shelly oolite with marly patches - 2 
The top beds here (in part at any rate) are equivalent to the 
beds seen in the quarry on the Cheltenham road, east of Stratton. 
(See p. 285). A quarry about f mile S.S.W. of Calmsden, showed 
about 7 feet of false-bedded and current-bedded oolite and buff 
sandy oolite, worked for wall-building, &c. These beds are on a 
lower horizon, equivalent to the strata in the quarry west of 
Brtunton. 
Beds belonging to the White Limestone division of the Great 
Oolite, were well shown in a quarry by the cross-roads south-west 
of Baunton Downs, as follows: 
