296 LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
Many fossils from the beds in this neighbourhood were collected 
by the Rev. E. Witts, of Slaughter.* 
Prof. Hull mentions that the lower beds near Aston Blank,, 
have yielded good lt slates" and flagstones, but the higher beds 
become oolitic ; and such is also the case at Salperton and 
Hawling.f Slaty beds have also been obtained at Pewsdown, 
west of Hasleton, and to the north of Ched worth. 
The following fossils have been recorded from the Stonesfield 
Slate of Sevenhampton (S.), Kyneton (K.), Salperton (Sp.),, 
Naunton, and Eyeford (E.) : 
Rhamphocephalus PrestwichiJ 
Megaloeaurus 
Teleosaurus 
Hybodus 
Ischyodus emarginatus. 
Mesodon (Pycnodus) 
Belemnites bessinus 
Nerita 
Gervillia 
Ostrea acuminata 
Sowerbyi 
Placunopsis socialis 
Pleuromya 
Trigonia impressa 
Pachynereis corrugatus 
Astropecten cotteswoldise 
K. 
E. K. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. K. 
E. 
Sp. 
S. Sp. 
E. Sp. 
S. Sp. 
E. 
K. 
At Wagboro Bush, near Stow-on-the-Wold, some Mollusca 
were obtained from the Great Oolite by Messrs. Brodie and 
Buckman ; and the species were considered to indicate an horizon 
corresponding with the beds at Ancliff, near Bradford-on-Avon. |j 
(See p. 261.) They include Cylindrites (Actceon) cuspidatus, 
Neridomus (Nerita) minutus, Corbula, and Leda (Nucula} 
mucronuta. 
Prof. Hull notes tlxit at Oddington, Icombe, and Stow, the 
Great Oolite consists of compact oolite, showing much false- 
bedding, and splitting up into coarse slates and flags. He further 
remarks that "On the east side of Stow a bed of conglomerate 
may be observed in a quarry. The pebbles, which are well 
rounded, and not larger than a pigeon's egg, consist of white 
limestone, unfossiliferous and slightly oolitic."1[ This bed is 
probably the same as that noted further east, marking the base of 
the Great Oolite, where it rests on the Chipping Norton Limestone. 
Fairfordy Northlcach, Burford, and Wycliwood Forest. 
An interesting fossil-bed in the Great Oolite is the Fairford 
Coral-Bed. The occurrence of this bed was noticed by John 
Woodward in 1728, for he then recorded " Branched coralloid 
* See also Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. x. p. 5. 
t Hull, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 55, 60. 
J Seeley, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxvi. p. 27. 
Etheridge, Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. ix. p. 2. 
|| Brodie and Bucktnan, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. i. p. 224. 
1 Geol. Cheltenham, p. 60. 
