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THE LOWER OOLITES NEAR BRISTOL 
Great Oolite. 
The Great Oolite, a deposit of the Maxillatae hemera, 
has been, in years gone by, extensively quarried between 
Bath and Bradford-on-Avon. 
Avoneliffe, on the left bank of the Avon, near Westwood, 
is noted for the large number of specimens of a lilliputian 
fauna which one of its beds has yielded ; many of the species 
collected by Lonsdale and named by Sowerby are probably, 
however, immature specimens. The same fossil bed has 
been identified by Mr.W. H. Wickes at Murhill, near Winsley, 
on the opposite side of the river. This quarry, like the 
first named, has not been worked for some years, but 
fossils can still be obtained from the weathered surfaces of 
the fallen blocks. The following section is given in the 
“ Survey Memoirs ” on the authority of Lonsdale for the 
lower portion, and of Mr. W. H. Wickes for the upper 
portion. 
(1) Murhill Quarry. 
Upper Division — ft. in. 
Coral band. C alamo phyllia radiata, Isastroea, 
etc. . . . . . . . .60 
Clay parting . . . . . . .04 
“Fossil Bed.” Polyzoa, Entalophora straminea; ' 
Echinoderms, Acrosalenia ; numerous small 
Gastropods, etc. . . . . . 16 0 
Clay with sponges, crustaceans, small ostrea.', 
etc. . . . . . . . .16 
Rag . 7 0 
Lower Division. 
Freestone . . . . . . . 10 0 
Ragbeds with layers of Freestone and occasional 
partings of clay . , . . . 43 0 
