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SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.

Fig. 3.

Diagrammatic sketch of the Permian sandstone and breccia in the bank of the lane leading from the Bell Inn, Northfield, to Bangham pit. Length of sketch about 80 yards.

A. Coarse sandstone and conglomerate, containing large angular blocks and slabs of shelly sandstone, from 16 to 18 inches long, and 4 to 6 inches thick.

B. Fine sandstone, sometimes containing pebbles and smaller angular fragments.

C. Hard, very regularly stratified breccia of flat angular fragments.

D. Bed of red or brown marl.