140 REPORT— 1883. 
Clent, Worcestershire, at junction of road from Stourbridge to Broms- 
grove, with by-road to Clent Hills. Felstone. Another block of felstone 
is on the opposite side of the road. 
Boulder (11 ft. 7 in. in circumference) just beyond the north-west 
corner of Highgate Common, Staffordshire, near a large Spanish chesnut- 
tree. Granite. 
Group of boulders near Claverly, Shropshire, and between there and 
Bridgnorth, comprising blocks of granite and felsite. 
Boulder (9 ft. 4 in, in circumference) near Waystone, Abbot’s Castle 
Hill, in boundary road between Staffordshire and Shropshire. _ Felsite. 
Boulder (5 ft. in circumference) on boundary road near Halfpenny 
Green, Salop. Vein quartz. 
Group of boulders near Gospel Ash, Staffordshire, comprising blocks 
of hornblendic granite poor in quartz, and said by Professor Bonney to 
be indistinguishable from specimens from Buttermere, and compact fel- 
site and mica syenite. 
Shropshire—The group of erratic blocks near Clun has been further 
examined by Mr, Luff, who reports that he has this year tracked the large 
Plinlimmon boulders lying in the Clun district eastwards from Black 
Hill over the Twitchen valley on to Clunbury Hill, and westwards to 
Beguildy, on the Radnorshire side of the Teme, i.e. for a distance of 
about 104 miles. Southwards they dot the country here and there as far 
as Llanvair Waterdine, about five miles distant. Smaller fragments lie 
in a pretty continuous stream right up to Kerry Hill in Montgomery- 
shire. None have as yet been found north of the Clun valley. Though 
they are most plentiful on the top of the ridge of hills south of Clun, 
they are by no means confined to high levels. 
The highest boulder is upon Black Hill. It is a grit from Rhayader, 
23 miles W.S.W., and has an elevation of something over 1,400 ft. 
Standing on Black Hill by this boulder, and looking westwards, the 
mountains of Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire are seen rising in trans- 
verse ridges across the line of sight, mass above mass in gradual stages, 
the hills in the near front being 1,200 to 1,400 ft. high; the Radnorshire 
Beacons, 1,796 ft.; Rhydd Hywell, 1,919 ft.; up to the Plinlimmon 
range itself, twenty to thirty miles distant. 
At present there appears to be no intermixture on this horizon of 
erratics from any other direction but the west. Granite boulders occur 
on the north flank of the Longmynd, i.e. within about sixteen miles. The 
hills on the north of Clun, it may be noted, are not so high as those on 
the west. In addition to those recorded in the last report the following 
boulders have been observed :— 
‘The Fairy Stone,’ on the south-west corner of Clunbury Hill, pebble 
grit from the neighbourhood of Rhayader. Size, 3 ft. x 2 ft. 3 in. x 
2 ft.6in. Exact position, 52° 24’ 35’ N., 2° 55’ 20” W. Subangular. 
Llanvair Hill Boulder, 3 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 7 in. and 2 ft. deep. Sub- 
angular. Grit from district as above. 
Barfield Flagstone, about half a mile west of the ‘Great Boundary 
Stone’ described last year, and, like it, from near Machynlleth. 7 ft. 9 in. 
sone: 6 ft. broad; deeply buried in the ground, from which one end rises 
ft. 6 in. 
The Beguildy ‘Stone,’ 52° 24 10’ N., 3°10’ 30” W. Height above 
ground, 3 ft. 6 in.; breadth, 4 ft. 3 in.; thickness—very irregular—from 
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