GREAT OOLITE : BAUNTON. 
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Great Oolite i 
Bubble of limestone ... 
Hard false-bedded white oolite, with bed 
like the Dagham stone, in places, at the 
top - - - 2 Oto 
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fWhite < p " " ' 
. v __\ 1 Hard white limestone with scattered 
Limestone). 
oolitic grains ; brown in places 
Brown limestone with abundant oolitic 
grains - - 
North-east of Rendcomb, and north of Holly bush, a Lime-kiln 
on the west side of the road showed the following: beds : 
Great Oolite 
(White 
Smooth white limestone, slightly oolitic - 
Eubbly beds with Litcina, bellona and" 
Cypricardia nuculifortnis 
Compact limestone 
Hard Coral-limestone 
Limestone). I Hard slightly oolitic stone 
I Fine oolitic stone - 
I Coral-limestone 
(_Hard oolitic marly bed. 
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The railway -cuttings between Cirencester and Chedworth 
have opened up some good sections of the Great Oolite. This 
rock is exposed near Wiggold (Wig wold) Copse, both in the 
cutting and in a quarry by the adjoining plantation. At the 
quarry we see about 6 feet of rubbly oolites and marls, resting on 
3 i^et of oolitic freestone. In the cutting we find lower beds, 
comprising about 6 feet of pale shelly and oolitic limestones, 
false-bedded, and presenting resemblances to the White Limestone. 
The same beds are exposed to a depth of 10 feet, further on to 
the south-east of Baunton Downs Farm, and clay-bands a few 
inches thick appear among the stone -beds. 
The strata are best shown in a long cutting to the north-east of 
Baunton Downs, and there we appear to have evidence of the 
overlap of the Forest Marble on to the White Limestone division 
of the Great Oolite. (See Fig. 85.) 
At the southern end of the cutting the upper beds of the 
Great Oolite showed an alternation of marls and oolites having a 
banded appearance. These are the beds exposed in the Wiggold 
Copse quarry. They are overlaid by obliquely bedded oolitic 
limestones with ochreous clay-galls, belonging to the Forest 
Marble. About midway in the cutting the section was as 
follows : 
Forest Marble 
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Kemble 
Beds. 
White 
Limestone. 
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/ Hard current-bedded oolitic limestone 
' \ with clay-galls - - 4 to 
f Marly clay - - - 1 to 
\ Oolite - - - 1 1 to 
I Clay with thin bands of limestone in 
I places ..... 
/ Shelly, and pale earthy limestone with 
\ scattered oolitic grains - 3 to 
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