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IT may interest some of your readers to know that I recently obtained some casts of fossils from the Bagshot Sands of the Newbury district, from which, with one doubtful exception (“Survey Memoir,” vol. iv. p. 330), they have not, I believe, hitherto been recorded. The fossils are of the nature of ferruginous casts, and were found in a sand-pit about one-third of a mile south-east of the London lodge of Highclere Park, mapped by the Survey as Lower Bagshot. They consist both of univalves and bivalves, and four or five genera are represented. They resemble, both in appearance and mode of occurrence, the fossils found in the Upper Bagshot of the Bagshot district; and the sands in which they occur have a strong resemblance to the sands of that division. To whatever division, however, of the Bagshots these beds may be assigned eventually, the occurrence of fossils in them is, I think, worthy of record.
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HERRIES, R. The Bagshot Beds. Nature 37, 104–105 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037104c0
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