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64 In the central part of the field, south of Bilston, we get the following sections:—

Around Highfields, Deepfields, and Tipton colleries there are only 2 to 4 feet of fire-clay, clunch, or binds; but at Coneygree, near Dudley, these beds again swell out to the following section:—

We will leave the attempt to trace these beds south and west of Dudley till after the description of the Fire-clay coal. Going north from the district already described, (north of Willenhall that is,) we find these beds to have a more constant character than elsewhere, always preserving a thickness of more than 20 feet, and consisting of alternations of rock, fire-clay, and clunch, as the three following sections will show:—

(See Vert. Sects., sh. 18, No. 29.)

Brown Hills Colliery.