is very local, being only fouund between Darlaston and Wolverhampton in sufficient quantity to be worth working. At Parkfields, south of Wolverhampton, the whole measure is 19 feet 2nbinches thick, with 11 bands of ironstone in it, but elsewhere, even when it occurs, it is rarely more than 2 to 4 feet in thickness.
The following are a few selected sections of this group of beds:—
Bentley[1]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Fire-clay |
1 |
4
|
| Clunch and binds |
19 |
4
|
| Rock |
4 |
0
|
| Binds and clunch |
12 |
2
|
| Clunch and ironstone, probably Proor robin |
2 |
8
|
| Whitestone (iron) |
4 |
11
|
|
|
44
|
5
|
Stow Heath.[2]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Fire-clay |
3 |
0
|
| Slums |
3 |
0
|
| Getting rock |
4 |
0
|
| Black batt |
7 |
6
|
| Poor robin |
2 |
6
|
| Black batt |
9 |
0
|
| Whitestone |
2 |
3
|
|
|
31
|
3
|
Priestfield.[3]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Black clod |
10 |
0
|
| Poor robin |
4 |
0
|
| Light clod |
7 |
0
|
| Whitestone |
2 |
6
|
|  
|
23
|
6
|
Ettingthall Lodge.[4]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Getting rock |
4 |
9
|
| Stratified grey rock |
1 |
4
|
| Batt, inflammable |
7 |
7
|
| Poor robin |
3 |
6
|
| Batt, inflammable |
5 |
0
|
| Whitestone |
3 |
6
|
|
|
25
|
8
|
(Vert. Sects., sheet 16, No. 8.)
Deepfields.[5]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Getting rock |
5 |
0
|
| Poor robin |
3 |
3
|
| Whitestone |
3 |
0
|
| Ironstone balls and gubbin |
4 |
9
|
| Fire-clay |
10 |
6
|
|
|
26
|
6
|
Bradley.[6]
| |
FT. |
IN.
|
| Fire-clay |
6 |
0
|
| Rock |
0 |
7
|
| Ironstone balls |
1 |
6
|
| Rock binds|12 |
6
|
| Poor robin |
4 |
11
|
| Black batt |
3 |
11
|
| Whitestone |
3 |
9
|
|
|
33
|
4
|
If we proceed, from the district thus characterised, farther south, we find one or both of the ironstones quickly disappearing, and the total thickness of the beds diminishing sometimes to only 8 feet. At Highfields for instance, although there is still ironstone, the beds between the Fire-clay and Bottom coals are only two measures of clunch, with ironstone balls, each 4 feet thick.
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. George.
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. Arthur Sparrow.
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. W. Ward.
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. Griffith of the Cock-shutts.
- ↑ From the "Miners' Guide."
- ↑ Communicated by Mr. S. H. Blackwell.
