Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The section in which these rocks are exposed is seen in a field at a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the village of Martley and due north of Berrow Hill Farm. Here is a small excavation for road stone, but it does not appear to have been worked lately. Both the quartzite and syenitic rock are exposed, the latter being very decomposed. The relations of the rocks to one another appear to be as follows (see Figure):—Below, at A, the quartzite is seen to stand out conspicuously. Round this, as at B, is a thin layer of powdery rotten rock, differing but little from the rest of the decomposed syenite, forming a crust at C, but evidently marking the junction of the quartzite and syenite; the latter being at D and E sufficiently undecomposed to allow of its being sliced. Above comes a loose breccia consisting of fragments of these rocks, but this is evidently surface soil.