GECLOGICAL NOTES—BU RTON-ON-TRENT, 26 
ERRAtIcs. 
When the South Staffordshire Water Works Company were 
making the Reservoir on the Outwood Hills, limestone boulders 
in great numbers were to be seen forming part of a considerable sized 
deposit of Glacial drift, and, I believe, one large ice-borne boulder of 
this kind my be seen on the right hand side of the road to the “ New 
Inn,” just after passing the Henhurst Farm; also, I am informed 
there is a large one by the Postern House. These fellows may only 
have had a very short ice-journey, say 15 or 20 miles from the 
Weavers, or limestone hills near Ashbourne, 
On the South side of the Trent these blocks are much less 
common, but there is a good example by the side of the “ Occupation 
road,” between the Ashby Road and Brizlincote on the North side, by 
the first gateway. This is a fine Glacier-scratched Chert-block 
3-ft. x 23-ft. x 12-ft., which evidently came down from the 
Mid-Derbyshire limestone plateau, 
Two still more interesting examples of Erratics may be seen on 
the Ashby Road, one in the wall opposite Moat Bank. This is a 
large well-rounded boulder of granite. The other may be seen 
lying by the side of a lump of weather-worn Bunter conglomerate at 
the foot of the sign-post at the junction of the High Bank Road with 
the Ashby Road. ‘This is a small well-rounded boulder of red 
granite. 
Nore.—March 1903. TI have recently more carefully examined 
these two boulders, and believe them to be Syenitic granite from the 
Charnwood Forest district, and not Shap Fell granite as I thought at 
one time. 
