vol. xx. (2) ANOTHER DEEP BORING AT SHIPTON MOYNE 155 
“ Passage Beds.” — In No. 3 Bore bed 42 1 commenced at 
153 feet down. 
The “ Passage Beds ” resembled their equivalents proved 
in No. 1 Bore, certain beds differing only in a few matters of 
detail. 
The bottom of bed 44 occurred at 168 feet 3 inches down ; 
the top of bed 48c at 190 feet down. 
Beds 50-53 were not separated in the core by any division- 
planes as was the case in the core drawn from No. 1 Bore. 
Fullers’ Earth. — The *' Marl, black, shaly, without 
fossils ” — bed 54 — and the hard Os^a-Limestone in bed 55 
were very noticeable. 
Deposits similar to those numbered 56 to 60 in the record 
of the No. 1 Bore section were duly encountered. 
Emphasis may be laid on the fact that specimens of Ostrea 
acuminata J. Sowerby, were the most abundant in bed 55. 
Thin layers in which its valves were abundant, however, occur 
also in beds 56, 57, 59a and /. 
No. 1 Bore left off at 21 feet 6 inches down in the apparently 
unfossiliferous Fullers’ Earth. No. 3 Bore has proved the 
Fullers’ Earth to be 35 feet thick, so that the total thickness 
of the deposits grouped as Fullers’ Earth here is 85 feet 6 inches 
■ — 6 feet more than at Tetbury. 
Inferior Oolite. — This Series commenced at 300 feet 
down. The Upper Trigonia- Grit was, as usual, unmistakable. 
Between it and the Fullers’ Earth, however, was a series of 
deposits unlike in most respects those occupying their strati- 
graphical position in natural and artificial sections in the 
South Cotteswolds. 
The limestone, bed 62, undoubtedly commences the Inferior 
Oolite Series, and may be compared with the Rubbly Beds of 
late schlcenbachi hemera. 2 
The sand deposit, which may be called the “ Shipton-Moyne 
Sand,” is very interesting. It has not been met with hitherto 
in any natural or artificial sections either in the South 
1 Procs., xix., p. 51. 
2 L. Richardson, Q.J.G.S., vol. lxiii. (1907), p. 388 ; L. R., Procs., xvii. pp. 87, 91, 93. 
