THE LOWER OOLITES NEAR BRISTOL 
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(2) Kingsdown. 
Four miles north of Winsley, at Kingsdown above Bath- 
ford, higher beds of the Great Oolite are quarried and yield 
an interesting fauna including the following species — 
D isc'iil ina hemispher ica . 
Terehratnla m,axillata. 
OrnitJiella digona. 
Rhynchonella ohsoleta. 
,, aff. concinna. 
Dictyothyris coarctata. 
Eudesia cardium. 
Terebratella Buchmani. 
Pecten hemicostatus. 
Perna rugosa. 
Lima cardiiformis. 
Lithodomus inclusus. 
Isastrcea limitata. 
„ sp. 
Stylina solida. , 
Montlivaltia Smithii. 
Hemicidaris minor.. 
Bradford Clay and Forest Marble. 
At Bradford-on-Avon, in a well-known quarry on the 
canal bank, south of the town, tlie Great Oolite is still 
extracted from underground workings and fossils from 
it can often be obtained from the quarrymen, but the 
interest in this quarry, and in the one on the opposite 
bank of the canal ^ centres in the overlying Bradford clay. 
The clay is about 10 feet thick, and very fossiliferous, 
especially at the base ; capping the clay there are a few 
feet of characteristic Forest Marble. The sequence is as 
follows — 
