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Two brothers, during the sad history of the Civil Wars, took 

 different sides, and the Yates of Hook House (now Bromesber- 

 row Place), lived to befriend the ruined Royalist. Haffield Camp 

 is celebrated for its fine section of Permian breccia, which presents 

 itself to the southward, opposite to the hall door of Haf&eld 

 House. Here we see the stratified masses of angular Conglo- 

 merate dipping away from an elevated axis of Old Red Sandstone, 

 under the Bunter beds (Bromesberrow Sandstones) to the south. 

 The Bunter beds are exposed at the base of the hill, between 

 the Dick House and Little London. They dipped away at a low 

 angle from HaflS.eld Camp and its Permian breccia. I visited 

 this section in company with my friend Mr. Lucy, of Brook- 

 thorpe, when Dr. Henk.^ had the gravel quarried for road pur- 

 poses, and I have already alluded to it in my work on " The 

 Records of the Rocks." In the hollow was a mass, first of 

 quartzoze sand, then of boulder clay, and below this was 

 northern drift gravel, containing rolled Has graphites and chalk 

 fiints, and in this northern drift was a large Silurian boulder of 

 Wenlock sandstone, resting on an eroded bed of Bromesberrow 

 sandstone. The sandstone beds were grooved and scored 

 deeply across their line of dip, as if by ice, or stones held in 

 ice, dragging across the surface. Many other angular fragments 

 of local rocks were deposited with the Wenlock boulder, 

 which was scratched and polished on one side. I took 

 Professor Prestwich, of Oxford, to see this remarkable section, 

 but alas, it was filled up, as being dangerous to cattle. From 

 Haffield we went to the section of drift at Clincher's Mill, on 

 seeing which Professor Prestwich at once remarked that the 

 drift there was of two distinct ages. At the base we have a 

 drift of rolled pebbles, and great angular blocks embedded 

 therein. This was, no doubt, the result of the action of water 

 running in a stream down the Hne of the present Glynch Brook, 

 and this stream must have been traversed also by floating ice, 

 which grounded and stranded the floating erratic blocks of local 

 rocks which were borne down from the north. Over these drifts 

 there is also an accumulation of atmospheric debris of consider- 

 able thickness, derived from the Wenlock Hill above. This 



