Deposits of the Bajocian Age in the Northern Cotteswolds: The Cleeve Hill Plateau

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I. I ntroduction . The present essay is in continuation of a former paper which described deposits of similar date in the Mid-Cotteswolds. The district now under discussion consists of an outlying isolated plateau, cut off from the main mass of the Cotteswolds on the east by the deep valley at Sevenhampton, and separated from the Mid-Cotteswolds by the Vale of Whittington. The best-known portion of this plateau is called Cleeve Cloud or Cleeve Hill; other portions include the hills above Whittington and Hewlett's Hill. For the purpose of the present paper the whole will be named the Cleeve Hill plateau. The literature relating to the district is not extensive. The latest detailed section is that of Cleeve Hill given by Wright. As, however, the sequence of the strata set forth by that author differs so considerably from that which will be described in the present communication, it is not thought desirable to discuss his section in detail, or to combat his views. An almost entirely new reading will be presented now. One more point may be referred to. A postscript to my communication on the ‘Mid-Cotteswolds’ (p. 461) first gave a short summary of the sequence found at Cleeve Hill. Further researches fully tended to bear out this sequence; and then, within the last few months, an important portion of the Rolling Bank quarry has been opened up, showing, in one exposure, confirmation of what was before an inductive surmise from the piecing together of several. II. T he S ections of the

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