290 LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OP ENGLAND : 
FIG. 85. 
Section north-east of Baunton Downs, between Cirencester and 
Chedicorth, on the Midland and South-Western Junction 
Railway 
S. N. 
3. Hard flaggy and current -bedded oolitic limestone with clay- galls ~l w . ,, ,, 
4 to 6 feet./ K 
2. Marly clay with impersistent band of oolite - 1 to 6 feet. "I r . n ,. 
1. White limestones, oolites, and marls - - 3 to 6 feet. J u 
The band of oolite in the Kemble Beds, tapers away towards 
the north ; the marly clays also become attenuated, so that the 
Forest Marble is separated from the White Limestone by a band 
of clay 1 foot or 18 inches thick. The top bed of White Lime- 
stone is here a hard pale oolitic and shelly limestone, with cavities 
like the Dagham stone, and the beds beneath comprise alternations 
of more or less oolitic limestone and thin marls. 
The Cutting, north of the Foss Way, showed hard white and 
shelly limestone, covered by greenish marl and dark shelly oolite 
in rough irregular bed?. These upper beds probably belong to 
the Forest Marble. Further north there are several deep cuttings, 
one near the Barn, showing 6 feet of marls and limestones in 
alternate bands, overlying a hard pale limestone with scattered 
oolitic grains, and with cavities like the Dagham stone. 
Northwards of the Barn, from 15 to 18 feet of more or less 
oolitic limestone was exposed, with occasional marl bands the 
stone being employed for railway-work*. At the time of my 
visit these cuttings were not completed, but they have since been 
described by Prof. Allen Harker.* In the cutting east of Allgrove 
(Aldgrove) Barn he notes two beds of limestone perforated by 
irregular cavities, and separated by a bed of "grey compact 
freestone " 4 feet thick. From another and lower bed of grey 
compact freestone, he obtained a number of spheroidal masses 
about the size of a cricket ball, made up of alternate concentric 
bands of pink and yellowish white limestone. In these masses 
he has found traces of Solenopora (or a closely allied Hydroid 
Zoophyte), a genufc hitherto found only in Lower Silurian or 
Ordovician strata. This fossil was recognized by Prof. H. A. 
Nicholson. The mass of these beds I take to belong to the White 
Limestone division, although the rubbly oolites and marls, seen 
in places on top of the more compact and partially oolitic lime- 
stones, may belong to the Kemble Beds. 
A cutting, which I noted, north-west of Long Furlong, and 
south-east of Chedworth, showed the following section : 
* Troc. Cotteswold Club, vol. x. p. 82. 
