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3 inches extreme breadth ; it was ornamented by a rudely carved 

 human face, and lay in a direction from north to south. The 

 greatest internal measures were 5 feet 4 inches long, 2 feet 7 

 inches broad, and 1 foot 3 inches deep. The weapons, utensils 

 and ornaments were, a head of a bronze spear, which had been 

 riveted to its shaft; one flint spear-head and two flint arrow- 

 heads, of rude manufacture and irregular forms ; circular orna- 

 ment of bone or horn ; ring of horn ; pin of wood ; pin of horn ; 

 basket of wicker-work made of bark, probably a frumentarium ; 

 portion of an ornamented girdle ? ; leaves and berries, probably of 

 misletoe. (Williamson's Description of a Tumulus, &c. 1834.) 



Gristhorp Bay, with its island rock, plant beds, and bold cliff's, 

 deserves frequent visits from Scarborough. 



CAYTON. WHITE NAB. 



Red Cliff, 285 feet above high water, exhibits the same 

 general section as Gristhorp ; but, owing to a fault, which throws 

 its beds down to the north 40 feet, the carbonaceous shales 

 with ironstone and plants scarcely appear. From Cayton Bay, 

 which comes next under notice, the retrospective view to Red 

 Cliff is fine, especially in the morning and evening, a rule of 

 general application to Yorkshire scenery. Part of the fine 

 stream which feeds Cayton Mill has been diverted within a few 

 years to a reservoir on the cliff, for the better supply of good 

 water to Scarborough. A great land-slip, north of the mill, has 

 brought down the calcareous grit and Oxford clay to the level of 

 the beach ; but immediately beyond, carbonaceous rocks, occu- 

 pying the place of those which were seen at the base of Gristhorp 

 Cliff, appear in the cliff above the oolitic prominence of Ewe Nab. 

 They do not yield plants or ironstone in the same abundance. 

 In the pretty little bay called Carnelian Bay, the oolite is de- 

 pressed ; but it rises again (with a different aspect) at the point 

 called White Nab, and bears above it a good deal of carbonaceous 

 sandstone with wood and plants. From this point to near the 

 ' Spaw/ the low scars are formed of the oolite ; the cliffs con- 



