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Ride No. I. 
A little to the north of the railway station at Onibury, 
in the lane leading to Norton, is a large Downton sand¬ 
stone quarry, from whence may be procured abundance 
of fucoidal impressions ; carbonaceous remains also 
abound, looking like pieces of charcoal, and are found 
loose in small cavities in the rocks. Fragments of fish, 
Pterygotus and Eurypterus , are also to be met with— 
occasionally a Modiolopsis — and Mr. Lightbody found 
a small portion of Orthoceras. This section may be 
plainly seen dipping in a direction under the Tin Mill 
Shale beds, which occur about a quarter of a mile higher 
up the lane, containing their characteristic fossils, and 
showing the junction with the Old Red beds overlying 
them. About a mile and a half further north, is the 
village of Norton, and in the Old Road there, at the 
back of Mrs. Bromley’s farmhouse, is a small Downton 
sandstone quarry, from whence I procured, a few years 
ago, the underside of several nearly perfect fish heads, 
all of them very beautifully tuberculated. They occur 
in a stratum at the bottom of the rock, full of a white- 
coloured Lingula cornea , but I have been unable to 
procure any since, as the quarry is now abandoned, and 
nearly full of water. There are several other quarries 
near, containing traces of fish and crustaceans; a small 
bivalve crustacean ( Leperditia marginata ) occurs in the 
upper beds. Nearly at the top of the lane leading to 
Mr. Bach’s house, is a low cliff of Upper Ludlow rock 
upon the right-hand side, in wdiich the bone bed is 
exposed of a greater thickness than in any other locality 
in which it has yet been observed, being here about 
eight inches thick. When I first discovered this bed, 
I asked a labourer if he had ever noticed it before. I 
showed it to him, and he said, “Yes ; it was a bed full 
of chopped straws,” to which it bears some slight 
