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SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.
5. Tipton-moat.
  FT. IN.
Bottom coal 9 6
Fire-clay, black ground, binds, and ironstone, batt and coal, white rock, &c. 71 0
Blue rock and binds 112 6
Binds 17 0
Stone and binds 172 0
  382 0

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6. Deepfields.
  FT. IN.
  Bottom coal 12 0
Rock, clunch, and rock binds 69 0 71ft. 6 in.
Blue flats 2 6
  Blue rocky clunch 150 0
  Limestone 50 0
  263 6
7. Parkfield, near Wolverhampton.
  FT. IN.
Bottom coal 11 2
Various coal measures 68 0 133ft. 6in.
Blue flats 10 9
Diamond clod 2 3
Strong white rock 22 6
Dark slaty ground 30 0
Limestone bavin
  144 8

(Vert. Sects., sheet 17, No. 20.)

8. Chillington Colliery, near Wolverhampton.
  FT. IN.
  Bottom coal 12 1
Various coal- measures 89 0 91ft.6in.
Blue flats 2 6
  Measures undescribed 240 0
  Limestone clunch, with small bands of limestone 210 0
  553 7

(Vert Sects., sheet 16, No. 9.)

9. Bentley Limestone Pit.
  FT. IN.
Bottom coal 8 8
Various coal-measures 89 0 146 ft.
Blue flats, Silver threads, and Diamonds 28 0
Binds, fire-clay, and rock 29 0
Binds and parting, Silurian 117 0
Binds with thin limestones 97 0
Little limestone 12 0
Shales with limestone 118 0
Thick limestone 33 9
Shales with limestone 18 0
  550 5

(Vert. Sects., sheet 16, No. 6.)

10. Ryecroft.
  FT. IN.
Blue flats, Silver threads, and Diamonds 41 6
Rough rock 6 0
Limestone, clunch, binds, and partings 183 0
Little limestone 12 0
Limestone clunch, with hard limestone balls 120 0
Thick limestone 36 0
  398 6

(Vert. Sects., sheet 16, No. 7.)