GREAT OOLITE: WINDKUSH. 301 
North of Barrington Park a quarry showed about 7 feet of 
false-bedded freestone, somewhat shattered in places, with softer 
marly beds on top. Very fine and coarse white oolitic grains 
run in irregular bands through the stone. Good squared building- 
blocks are here obtained. The only fossils I found were Ceromya 
striata (?), Lima gibbosa, and Rhynchonella concinna. 
The once famous Windrush quarry is situated to the south- 
west of the village, and the stone has been obtained by mining. 
The distance from the railway, has no doubt affected the working 
of the stone, for comparatively little was being obtained at the 
period of my visit. The following section of the beds was given 
by Lonsdale* : 
FT. IN. 
fRubbly limestone - 10 
Brownish marl stone 
Upper J Rubbly limestone 
Division. *\ Pale sandy marl 
j Rubbly marlstone 
(^Light-coloured clay 
Lower / Rag and freestone 
6 
4 
3 
6 
6 
15 
Division. \ Sandy laminated grit (Stonesfield Beds). 
The above section differs a good deal in detail from the general 
one given by Prof. Hull (Fig. 86). The thickness of the workable 
stone at Windrush does not exceed 11 feet: but there is an 
alternation of shelly rock (Rag) and freestone. The freestone is 
of good quality. The White Limestone has been quarried on 
the south side of the high road, near the old freestone quarry. 
At Little Barrington, half a mile east of the New Inn, south- 
east of the village, the following section was seen : 
Fx. IN. 
Brown brashy clay-soil. 
f Rubbly oolite - - - - 1 6 
I Yellowish marly clay - - - 6 
Great J White oolitic limestone, coarse and 
Oolite. j fine-grained. Shelly oolite in 4 
layers - - - - - 6 
LBrown oolite, closely-packed grains - 1 
Faulted against these beds were the following strata : 
FT. IN. 
f Reddish brown clay . - about 3 
Forest j Brown > P a ^ e S 1 " 67 an( ^ bluish-grey fissile 
VTarhlp i shelly oolite, with clay-galls : thin- 
Marble. 
I 
of marly clay; Ostrea, &c. - - 12 
I bedded and false-bedded with layers 
The Great Oolite above described, presents some characters 
akin to the White Limestone division : possibly there may be a 
blending of the two divisions, as I have noted to be the case at 
Hampen, and some of the beds in that case may belong to the 
Marly beds of the Upper Division. (See p. 293.) 
On the Oxford and Burford road, about a mile east of Burford, 
the following section was to be seen : 
* Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. i. p. 415 ; see also Hull, Geol. Cheltenham, p. 57. 
