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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1920 
In former times these beds must have been extensively 
quarried for building stone, as numerous houses and walls are 
built of them. The quarries are now almost everywhere 
overgrown, and exposures of the rock are scanty. 
Lithologically the Huntley Hill beds are coarse sandstones 
becoming, especially in the lowest beds seen, conglomeratic. 
They are usually red in colour, though sometimes yellow. 
Amongst the sand grains felspar fragments are commonly to be 
seen in hand specimens, and in the conglomerates the rolled 
stones are sometimes sub-angular. The coarse sandstone is 
rarely fossiliferous, but blocks in walls have yielded numerous 
specimens of Ccelospira hemispherica and Camarot nucule e. 
Close to the top of the stream which runs down the eastern 
slope of May Hill towards Clifford Manor is an old quarry in 
which is seen a coarse conglomerate with layers of fine sand- 
stone. The well-rounded fragments in the former are of brown 
and purple felsite, quartz and quartzite, the largest ones being 
3 inches in length. The dip here is nearly north, the beds being 
either bent or affected by a fault. 
About 600 yards to the south-east of the summit of May Hill, 
close to the top of the Newent Woods, is an old line of working, 
in which a coarse quartzose sandstone with layers of a finer 
yellow sandstone is seen, and the latter contains Ccelospira 
hemispherica in abundance. Towards the top of the Huntley 
Hill beds, along the western side of May Hill come reddish 
sandstones, which are sometimes fine but usually very coarse. 
Of the included pebbles those formed of quartz are the most 
common, while rolled fragments of pink and green felsites are 
not unusual. 
This rock is to be seen just above the old road about a 
quarter of a mile to the south-west of the hill-top, and there 
it dips 40° south-west. It also crops out about 600 yards to 
the north of Dursley Cross Mill, where it dips 37 0 south, and at 
both places it contains casts of Ccelospira hemispherica. 
These seem to be the only spots in this northern area where 
the Huntley Hill beds may now be seen in situ, but their 
lithological characters may be well studied in the blocks with 
which the wall is made that runs along the western boundary 
