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THE MIDDLE LIAS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
The Upper-beds have a dip of ten degrees W.S.W. Here 
again I Lave only been able to identify with certainty “A,” 
“ B,” and “L,” though I have little doubt that 8 is the 
representative of “I,” “ J,” “K,” and that 7 includes more 
than the Rock-bed. I think it was the presence of Terebra- 
tula (punctata?) in the lower part that induced me to put the 
fossils obtained from there under “ D.” 
Two other sections may be found between Milton and 
Northampton, one to the right and the other to the left of the 
road. The one nearest Milton—right hand side going towards 
Northampton—is almost obscured now, though the Rock-bed 
itself may be seen around the field under the hedge. The 
Paper shales and Fish and Insect limestone are not quite so well 
developed here as in tlie village, but the Lower Ceplialopoda- 
bed and Transition-bed much better. The latter has yielded:— 
Ammonites acntus, Ammonites Holandrei, Ammo7iites communis , 
Eucyclus concinnus, Cucullcea Mimsteri, Lima, punctata , Astarte 
voltzi, Rhynchonella tetrahedra, Waldheimia resupinata, Sc. 
Several things from here require identification, and one 
or two may be new. 
In a field a little way from the road, on the left-hand side, 
and not far from the section just referred to, the Rock-bed 
may be seen, with traces of the Transition and Fish-bed at the 
top. The stone is mostly of a rubbly character, and used for 
road mending. The Rock-bed at this place presents only its 
normal characters ; there is nothing like the three-fold 
division of bed No. 7 in the Milton section, although less than 
a mile away. 
The only other section I now have to refer to is one at 
Northampton. In a boring for water made on the Kettering 
Road some few years ago, the whole of the Upper, Middle, 
and Lower Lias was passed through, and the following is the 
sequence of beds from near the bottom of the Upper Lias to 
about the top of the Lower Lias. It is the account given by 
the miners who sank the first shaft, before the boring actually 
commenced, and was given to me by Mr. H. J. Eunson, 
F.G.S.:— 
Section at the Kettering Road Well and Bore Hole. 
1. —Surface clay and marl 
2. —Blue clay ... 
3. —Green rock (fossils) 
4. — Binds* (fossils) 
Feet In. 
... 4 0 
...147 0 
... 4 0 
... 1 0 
* Binds. A miner’s term for tough shales or clays, but not very 
precise in its meaning. 
