TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
bull Sctentific 
AND 
Field Waturalists’ Club. 
EDITED BY 
Tuomas SHEPPARD, F.G.S., anp J. R. Boyre, F.S.A. 
Pre-historic Hlan in Holderness: 
By Tuomas SHEPPARD, F.G.S. 
Read November 15th, 1899. 
os. period known to geologists as the Quarternary, or Recent, 
is one of the most interesting of all the epochs with which 
they have to deal. It is in the deposits laid down at this time 
that we are to look for the first evidences of the appearance of man 
upon our earth. This is at all times a subject of the greatest 
interest. During the Quarternary era the work of the geologist 
encroaches upon that of the archzologist, and vice versd, and it is 
only by the joint investigations of students of these two sciences 
that we are able to obtain any idea of the state of this country in 
pre-historic times. 
In the particular district of Holderness (and I refer now to the 
geological division of Holderness, that is, the land east of the 
Yorkshire Wolds) there is a great difficulty in deciding where the 
work of the geologist should end and that of the archeologist 
should begin. It will probably be as well, therefore, if a few 
preliminary words are said on the geology of the neighbourhood. 
