TOWERSEY,
OXFORDSHIRE
The coprolites,
or phosphatic nodules, were found near the base of the Gault clay at Towersey
near Thame and at Dinton where, according to a geological report they were
extracted from 1875 to 1884 from a bed three to four inches thick. They were
used in manure manufacture, as were those raised across the coprolite belt
which ran southwest northeast across this area. (Jukes-Brown, "Cretaceous
Rocks of Britain•, 1900 p430; I. O'Dell "The Vanished Industry• p19;
Kelly's Directory, 1924, p16)