70 Notes on the Geology of South Ferviby. 
and the Humber to exercise the racers upon. A plan of 
Wintringham made not more than 110 years ago shews that the 
first field beyond the Ancholme is all the land now remaining of 
a farm of 200 acres.” 
In anarticle on “ A Trip to Read’s Island,” written in a local 
paper in 1883, it was stated ‘that “‘ there are persons living who 
can remember fox-hunting on the very ground now covered by 
water and over which vessels sail.”’ 
There are some interesting facts bearing on this question ina 
paper written half a century ago by the late James Oldham “On 
the Physical Features of the Humber.”* He wrote :—* From a 
point near to Whitton, to another a little to the east of Ferriby, 
including a distance of about six miles of coast, very extensive 
ravages have taken place; and in my own recollection and 
knowledge of the shore, and from facts I have obtained, not less 
than 200 acres have been lost during the last 40 or 50 years, so 
that the line of coast at this locality forms a considerable bay, 
but filled in, in some measure, by an island. I met with one 
individual at Wintringham, who informed me that in one field of 
14 acres he had constructed, within the space of about 20 years, 
seven new banks, and only about 33 acres now remain. Another 
field of about 17 acres is now reduced to about 2 acres. Itisa 
tradition that about 100 years ago persons could make themselves 
heard and understood between the ancient Roman ferry at Brough 
and the Ferry opposite. It is now more than a mile from Brough 
to the nearest point on the opposite side.” 
In the Summary of the Reports of the. Committee of the 
British Association appointed to make “‘ Observations on changes 
in the Sea Coast of the United Kingdom.{ It is recorded that 
‘In the neighbourhood of Ferriby Hall, Barton Cliff and Barton 
Ness (Barton-on-Humber) the recorded loss is from 4 to 6 feet in 
2} years.” In view of the extracts that have been made we can 
hardly agree with a remark in the same report that “ apparently 
erosion in the estuary of the Humber is not very serious.” 
In a previous report of the same Committeef it is recorded 
**Report British Association, 1853, Hull Meeting. 
7Brit. Assn., 1908, Southport Meeting. 
{For 1895. Ipswich mecting, p. 377, 
