vol. xx. (2) ANOTHER DEEP BORING AT SHIPTON MOYNE 15 1 
ANOTHER DEEP BORING AT SHIPTON MOYNE, 
near TETBURY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
BY 
L. RICHARDSON, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 
In Vol. xix. (1915) of the Proceedings of the Club I gave 
an account of the rocks passed through in a deep boring at 
Shipton Moyne. 1 This boring 2 was 286 feet 6 inches deep and 
passed through : — 
67 feet 6 inches of Forest Marble Beds, 
84 feet 8 inches of Great Oolite, 
62 feet 2 inches of beds best described as " Passage Beds,” 
and 72 feet 2 inches into the Fullers’ Earth. 
The account of the rocks passed through was imperfect in 
respect of the strata between 58 feet and 100 feet 6 inches 
down because no cores were drawn from between those depths. 
All the information that could be obtained concerning the rocks 
— the lower part of the Forest Marble and the upper portion 
of the Great Oolite — between these depths was that furnished 
by the foreman in charge of the boring operations and certain 
small rock-specimens that he had collected. 
On February 12th, 1916, another boring, No. 3 — that now 
under consideration — was commenced in the same field and 
was completed on July 20th of the same year. It passed 
through : — 
74 feet of Forest Marble, 
79 feet of Great Oolite, 
61 feet 6 inches of Passage Beds, 
85 feet 6 inches of Fullers’ Earth, 
74 feet 8 inches of Inferior Oolite, 
a 4-inch Pecten- Bed, 
and 68 feet into Upper-Lias Sands. 
1 Pp. 49-55. The statement on p. 49 that the site of the bore-hole was “ some thirteen miles ” 
from the nearest portion of the Cotteswold edge at Upper Kilcott should be six and a half miles. 
2 To be exact, the information was obtained from a well-sinking, 47 feet 2 inches deep ; a 
percussion boring to 100 feet 6 inches ; a rotary boring from the bottom of the percussion boring 
down to a depth of 286 feet 6 inches ; and a second bore-hole (No. 2 on Messrs. H. Rofe & Son's 
plan) sunk to a depth of 58 feet. 
