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HH OOLITIC, OR JURASSIC LIMESTONES. 207 ‘ Ragstone ’ A rough, shelly, oolitic limestone, not Feet. used for building 38 Upper Freestone White or light yellow oolitic limestone, used for ordinary buildings 34 Oolite Marl Soft chalky limestone and marl 7 Lowe)' Freestone Fine-grained, compact oolitic freestone, white or light yellow, used for build- ing purposes ‘47 Pisolite, or Pea Grit ■ ■ Largely oolitic, friable limestone, shelly and coralline, unfit for building pur- poses 38 The principal quarries are at Bourton, Broad way, Guiting, Stanway Hill, Cleve Cloud, Painswick Hill, Sheepscomb Hill, Syreford, Brockhampton, and Loughborough. The stone from Painswick is of specially fine quality, approaching in texture the celebrated Caen stone of Normandy. The presence of this Oolitic limestone has imparted a special character to the domestic architecture of the hilly districts as contrasted with that of the plains, which are formed of Lias clay, and in which brick houses set in wooden frame-works abound. Some of the farmsteads and manor houses of the Cotteswold Hills, as old as Henry VIII or Elizabeth, are good speci mens of the style of the period, and are built ex clusively of Oolitic limestone. 2. Great or Bath Oolite. This formation has a much more extensive range than the Inferior Oolite, from which it is separated by a clayey stratum, called ‘Fuller’s earth,’ which is absent in Oxfordshire.