vol. xx. (3) THE SILURIAN ROCKS OF MAY HILL 
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red sandstone and red sandy marls, which dip 62° 
west, while brown sandstone with a limestone band is 
seen in the road above the rectory and dips 50° west- 
south-west. 
In the railway cutting by the Farmer’s Boy Inn on the 
Ross road near the tenth milestone from Gloucester tw r o 
limestone bands dipping 25 0 west are seen in the Old Red 
Sandstone. At Clifford’s Mesne, as mentioned above, is an 
old brick pit which shows 2 feet of maroon-coloured marls 
resting on yellowish sandstone, the dip here being 22 0 south- 
south-east. 
It seems clear, therefore, that above the Downtonian there 
occur beds which are in the main soft sandstones, though they 
contain harder layers and also beds of soft clay and marl, and 
that these are covered by hard sandstones which contain 
layers of limestone. 
The Longhope Valley is excavated in the soft beds at the base 
of the Old Red Sandstone along the strike of which it runs. 
IV. General Summary and Comparison with 
Neighbouring Areas. 
The May Hill area consists of a conformable succession of 
Silurian beds from the Llandovery Sandstone to the Downton 
Sandstone and Precambrian Grits are possibly present as 
well. 
In the region of May Hill itself the Silurian beds are arranged 
in an anticline, but in the extreme north of the area much 
faulting has destroyed this arrangement, while towards the 
south the beds exposed between the Trias and the Old Red 
Sandstone all dip in a south-west direction. 
The Downton Sandstone thins out markedly as it passes 
southwards. The Ludlow beds are sandy beds throughout, 
except near their summit, where they include thin beds of 
limestone. No Aymestry Limestone being present, they cannot 
be divided into an upper and a lower division, as is also the case 
in the Usk area. 
The Wenlock and Woolhope beds show a normal 
