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THE CRETACEOUS HOCKS OF BRITAIN. 
the field north of Chilfrome House, 4 or 5 feet of chalk witii the 
usual layer of phosphatic nodules resting on the sandstone. A 
similar junction can be studied in two pits at Maiden Newton, 
one at Tollerford and one by the side of Chilfrome Lane. Both 
yield many fossils. 
Eggardon Hill, four miles south-west of Maiden Newton, is a 
fine promontory of Chalk overlooking the lower Jurassic plateau 
to the west. The base of the Chalk Marl, resting on hard calcareous 
grit, can be seen on the south-western slope of the hill, and exhibits 
the usual nodule-bed with many fossils, among which a specimen 
of Am. [. Acanthoceras ] rotomagensis and one of Pleurotomaria 
cassisiana retaining the shell were found by the Rev. H. S. 
Solly, of Bridport. The exposure here was described by Mr. 
Whitaker in 1870,* and he remarks that the glauconitic and 
quartziferous chalk is only about 2 feet thick ; “ 2 feet up the 
grains get fewer, and they are lost at about 4 feet/' 
Passing westward from Maiden Newton, there are small exposures, 
whence fossils may be obtained, north of Toller Fratrum and south¬ 
east of Penny’s Toller, or Toller Whelme as it is called on the new 
Ordnance map. 
There is not now any good exposure near Beaminster, except 
at Cheddington, about two miles northward, where the junction 
is exposed in a lane about half a mile south of the church. Many 
fossils now in the Museum at Jermyn Street and labelled Ched¬ 
dington were probably obtained from this spot. 
The following is a list of the fossils which are found at the base 
of the Lower Chalk in West Dorset; those from Cerne and Maiden 
Newton were obtained by myself, those from Evershot chiefly by 
Mr. Whitaker, and those from Eggardon by Mr. Solly. Those 
marked S are from previous collections for the Geological Survey, 
and are taken from the published Catalogue of Cretaceous Fossils. 
Specimens from Chilfrome, Cattistock, Toller Whelme, Wraxall, 
and Chalmington are included in the Maiden Newton list. 
• 
Cerne Abbas. 
i 
Evershot. 
Maiden Newton. 
Eggardon. 
Beaminster. 
! 
i 
Cheddington. 
Pisces. 
Elasmobranch vertebra. 
1 
Cephalopoda. 
Ammonites [Douvilleicevas] euomphalus, Sharpe - 
- 
- 
- 
s 
- 
- 
„ [Acanthoceras] hippocastanum, Sow. ■ 
1 
- 
3 
- 
5 
- 
„ [ „ ] Mantelli, Sow. 
1 
2 
3 
- 
5 
„ [ „ ] navicnlaris. Mant.- 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
,, [Desmoceras] planulatus, Soiv. 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
- 
„ [Acanthoceras] rotomagensis, Brongn. ■ 
1 
S 
- 
4 
5 
- 
„ [Schloenbachia] varians, Sow. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
„ [ „ ] Coupei, Brongn. • 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,Vol. xxvii. p. 96. 
