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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1920 
MAY HILL MEETING. 
June 12TH, 1920. 
The second Field Meeting of the year 1920 was held in May Hill district 
on June 12th, under the directorship of the President. 
The object of the excursion was to inspect the Silurian beds of May Hill. 
The party met at Longhope Church, and after a brief account of the geology 
of the district crossed the railway line, which here runs over the marls forming 
the base of the Old Red Sandstone, and passing over the thin development 
of the Downton Sandstone, which is not to be seen at this spot, arrived at a 
quarry in the Ludlow beds. These are very fossiliferous, and are of the 
nature of sandy shales. 
Making their way to the top of the ridge to the east, the members spent 
some time in the quarry in the Wenlock Limestone, which is extremely 
fossiliferous, Trilobites, Corals and Brachiopods being found. 
Going down into the valley, which lies between the ridge above mentioned 
and May Hill, the Director explained that this owed its presence to the soft 
Wenlock Shales which lay under the Wenlock Limestone, and on mounting 
the slopes of May Hill one came on to the Llandovery Sandstone. 
The vegetation now altered, and such plants as Foxgloves, Bracken, 
Heather and the Heath Galium became common. 
Unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse, and rain prevented 
complete investigations of the Sandstone, the upper very fossiliferous beds 
were not seen, but the lower Conglomeratic Sandstone w r as shown in the wall 
which runs along the old road round this side of the hill. This bed w'as seen to 
contain fair-sized pebbles of quartz and felsite. 
Returning to Longhope, members had tea. 
T. E. Sanders, Burleigh Cottage, Brimscombe, Stroud, was elected a 
member, on the proposition of E. W. Fyffe, seconded by W. A. Lucy. 
This meeting was marked by the presence of Lady Members for the first 
time in the history of the Club, to which reference was made at tea. 
PAINSWICK MEETING. 
Saturday, July ioth, 1920. 
Director : C. Upton. 
The third Field Meeting of the year 1920 was held in Painswick district 
on Saturday, July xoth. 
Owing probably to the somewhat inclement weather, the attendance was 
small, only six members being present. 
On arriving at Cud Hill, a section showing the base of the Pea-Grit series 
was inspected, but this, like so many others of the Cotteswold sections, was 
almost obliterated by tumbled debris and herbage. Sufficient, however, 
remained to show the lowermost bed of Limestone with the rubbly bed con- 
taining Rhynchonella (Costir hynchia) cosligera (S. S. Buckman) — which sometimes 
