vol. xx. (2) ANOTHER DEEP BORING AT SHIPTON MOYNE 153 
[2] in H. B. Woodward’s record, repeated below, of the sequence 
of Great Oolite Beds at Farley Down, near Bath. 1 
SEQUENCE OF GREAT OOLITE BEDS AT FARLEY DOWN, 
NEAR BATH. 
Greenish marly clay. 
o 
O 
O 
Forest Marble 
(Bradford Clay). 
[1.] Hard shelly oolitic limestone . . 'j 
[2.] Flaggy false-bedded white oolite {>15 
(passing down into bed below) . . J 
[3.] Oolitic rag bed, very shelly, with 
Pecten and Polyzoa, etc. . . 
[4. j Hard, compact and oolitic limestone ; 
Upper with ochreous and sandy galls that 
Division. give rise to a honeycombed 
appearance on the weathered faces 
of the rock 
[5.] Roof-bed ; coarse oolite with many 
Mollusca, Polyzoa, Echini, and 
Corals. Large Ostrea on surface 
and Lithodomi 
[6.] Pale oolitic freestone ; false-bedded 
in some places, and evenly bedded 
in others (about 24 feet). 
This has been divided as follows by 
the quarrymen : — 
Lower 
Division. 
Ft. In. Ft. In. 
o to 20 o 
3 6 to 4 
2 to 2 
[a] Capping (fine-grained oolite used 
for carving) 
I 
6 
to 
I 
8 
[6] Grey bed 
I 
8 
to 
3 
0 
[c] White beds (used for carving) . . 
10 
0 
[tf] Hard weather bed 
2 
6 
to 
3 
0 
[1 e ] Red weather bed 
5 
0 
to 
9 
0 
There is no doubt as to which stage these 21 feet of lime- 
stones at Shipton Moyne should be assigned : they clearly 
belong to the Great Oolite and not to the Forest Marble. The 
yellowish limestone which underlies this group of beds is 
interesting. Its upper portion contains a quantity of coral 
(? Cladophyllia ) , for the most part replaced by calcite. Its 
lower portion is of a deeper yellow tint than the upper, softer, 
and contains numerous flat, greenish-marl “ galls.” After long 
exposure to the weather this portion of the bed would acquire 
a cavernous appearance. Probably it is equivalent to bed 17 
at Tetbury, 2 and to bed [4] of Farley Down. Below this yellow 
limestone at Shipton Moyne were two very noticeable beds of 
1 H. B. Woodward, The Jurassic Rocks of Britain, etc., vol. iv. (1894), pp. 263-64. The 
numbers and letters given in square brackets have been added by me to facilitate reference. 
2 Procs. t xix., p. 58. 
