GREAT OOLITE : TAYNTOX. 
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What may be termed Taynton or Milton Stone, is now largely 
quarried in the same neighbourhood, to the north-east of the 
old Taynton quarries, at Milton in the parish of Shipton-under- 
Wychwood. The following is the section in Grove's quarry, 
Milton ; but the upper beds down to the " small land-stones," are 
noted on the authority of Mr. R. F. Tomes, as they were not 
clearly exposed at the time of my visit : 
"Surface-soil and shattered stone - 3 
White fine-grained, slightly oolitic 
stone, with fragments of Corals and 
Nerincen - - - tf 
Bluish marly clay - - 2 
Coral-bed : hard fine-grained and pale 
limestone - -2 
Marly clay - -1 
Oolite ; rubbly where near surface 
(" small land-stones '") - -1 
Marl - ... 1 
("Upper Division Brown shelly oolite (' ' White Rag ": 
(White Lime- J yielding good lime) - - - 3 
stone and j Grey and brown clay - -1 
Marly Beds.) [ Fissile oolite - - - - 1 
Brown marly clay - - - "1 
White rubbly marl - - - J ' 
Pale grey slightly oolitic limestones 
(" Blue Rag ": road-stone) - - 1 
Grey clayey and oolitic marl - -1 
Indurated oolitic marly beds (' Bastard 
Y7hite Rags ") - -~] 
Marly clay - - - j 
Blue clay .... ^IQ 
Brown clay with Ostrea Sowerbyi and | 
Rhynchonella concinna (abundant) - J 
Fissile and false-bedded oolite with 
mai'ly patches, Ostrez, and Rhyncho- 
nella - - - -3 
Lower Division J Rubbly beds of oolite and marl - 2 
(Freestone), j Fissile oolite (1 ft., passing down into 
pale oolite (freestone) much jointed - 6 
Poor freestone - 2 
i Marl. 
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The measurements given by Mr. Tomes amount to 54 feet, 
but the thickness assigned to the freestone-beds was about 5 feet 
more than that recorded by myself. The fossils that have been 
noted are as follows :* 
IN. 

t Natica formosa. 
f Nerinsea. 
f Ceromya undulata P 
Cypricardia. 
Modiola. 
Pecten vagans. 
f Terebratula maxillata. 
f Clypeus Mulleri. 
Solaster Moretonis. 
Adelastraea. 
Anabacia complanata. 
ChorisastraBa obtusa. 
Cryptocoeuia. 
f Isastrsea gibbosa. 
limitata. 
Microsolena excelsa. 
Montlivaltia caryophyllata. 
Thamnastraea Lyelli. 
* Tomes, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xli. p. 171 ; see also Hull, Geol. Chelten- 
ham, p. 58. 
f The species so marked were obtained by myself, and identified by Messrs. 
Shaman and Newton ; the remaining species have ben recorded by Mr. Tomes and 
others. 
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