The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . uarries are g mile south-west of Widworthy Church,and are very large excavations, one pit being 50 or 60 feet deep,but entirely overgrown by grass and copsewood, so that hardly anychalk was visible at the time of my visit. In the most northerlypit, however, was a small exposure of hard calcareous sandstone;and, on making enquiries, I learned that this calcareous sandstonewas the grizzle, but that the best stone, and that for which thequarries were formerly worked, was a freestone in the Chalk. ^ [There is no Lower Chalk as ch alk near
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . uarries are g mile south-west of Widworthy Church,and are very large excavations, one pit being 50 or 60 feet deep,but entirely overgrown by grass and copsewood, so that hardly anychalk was visible at the time of my visit. In the most northerlypit, however, was a small exposure of hard calcareous sandstone;and, on making enquiries, I learned that this calcareous sandstonewas the grizzle, but that the best stone, and that for which thequarries were formerly worked, was a freestone in the Chalk. ^ [There is no Lower Chalk as ch alk near Honiton, and the present writeruses the term Cenomanian for the arenaceous beds which appear to be theequivalents of the Chalk Marl in this part of Devon, and to correspond withthe zone of Ammonites Mantelli in the West of France; see Quart. Soc. vol. hi (1896) p. 171.—April 22nd, 1898.] 2 Trans. Geol. Soe. ser. 2, vol. iv, pt. ii (1836) p. 234. ^ This re-survey has not yet been pu])lished. Q. J. G. S. No. 215. T «o 1 •to o O 05 • 1-4. a 3 60 o a .3 o e ^ <DO •r!o &4 « Vol. 54.] CBNOMANIAN AND TURONIAN NEAR HONITON. 241 This freestone has been used in the construction of WidworthyCourt, Widworthy Barton, Sutton Barton, and other houses in theneighbourhood, so that specimens of it were easily obtainable. Aninspection of them showed that the stone resembled Beer Stone soclosely that I felt sure that the bed was a continuation of the stratumexposed at Beer. As a building-stone it is evidently quite as goodas Beer Stone, the external angles of the stones in the buildingsabove mentioned being as sharp as when dressed by the mason. Wishing to see the stone in place, I had part of the lower face ofthe quarry near the old lime-kiln cleared. This disclosed about18 feet of hard chalk containing Inoceramus mytiloides and manypieces of Inoceramus-aheW; at the bottom was a mass of hardshelly stone ; but this was not in place, and appeared to be a blockof infe
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