348 LOWEK OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
the strike. Some of the thin layers of limestone in this cutting 
were crowded with minute Gasteropoda, but the species were not 
determinable. 
The following fossils were collected by Mr. J. Rhodes and 
myself at Templecombe junction : 
Cerithium. 
Dentalium. 
Astarte. 
Avicula costata ? 
Corbula. 
Leda lachryma. 
Lima duplicata. 
Modiola. 
Nucula. 
Ostrea 
Pecten annulatus. 
rigidus. 
vagans. 
Placunopsis socialis. 
Trigonia pullus P 
Rhynchonella obsoleta. 
Waldheimia digona. 
Serpula tetragona. 
Wincanton to Frome. 
The Forest Marble has in old times been quarried to the west 
of Wincanton, by Bratton church ; and in recent years it has 
been worked near Holebrook House, where soft sandy beds and 
clay-seams occur among the shelly and oolitic limestones. 
Quarries again are met with at Higher Knoll, south of Redlinch, 
where the shelly and oolitic limestones are shown to a depth of 
15 feet. Little or no clay occurs here between the stone-beds, 
but they are rough and irregular, much fissured and coated with 
lime-wash and stalactitic deposits. The lower clayey beds were 
exposed in the lane leading towards Shepton Montague. 
Continuing along the outcrop, through Redlinch Park, we find 
occasional quarries; those situated to the north of Scale Hill, 
south-east of Batcombe, exhibiting about 12 feet of false-bedded 
oolitic and shelly limestone with horizontal bands of clay, separating 
these obliquely bedded masses of stone, as seen in sections 
near Cireucester. The thickness of the Forest Marble here was 
estimated at 42 feet by De la Beche, but it is probably more than 
twice as great.* 
West of Lineham's Barn, to the south of Wanstrow, and again 
to the south-east of the village, near Studley Farm, there are 
quarries showing from 7 to 12 feet of false-bedded shelly and 
oolitic limestone, and decomposed shelly and sandy limestone. 
South-east of West Cranmore the beds rise in a bold escarpment, 
and this extends by Cloford and Marston Bigot to Frome. At 
Cloford the thickness of the Forest Marble was estimated to be 
130 feet by Bristow. 
It will be noticed that in this neighbourhood as we approach 
the Mendip Hills, and onwards towards Cirencester, the occurrence 
of sandy beds in the Forest Marble is a marked feature. 
At Bull's Quarry, Marston Bigot, the stone has been worked 
along the dip-slope, but although the openings are now aban- 
doned, we may observe cltvy and thin stone, resting on thick and 
thin false-bedded oolitic and shelly limestone, with beds of yellow 
sand and streaks of laminated clay. 
* Mem. Geol. Survey, vol. i. pp. 280, 285. 
