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GLACIAL EVIDENCES NEAR HARROGATE. 
A. LESLIE ARMSTRONG, F.S.A. (Scor.), 
Harrogate. 
Tue development of Harrogate on its western outskirts has, 
during recent months, revealed various interesting glacial 
phenomena, particularly during the extension of Kent Road 
to a junction with the old Irongate Bridge Road. The latter 
enterprise has necessitated not only a cutting along the face 
of the Harrogate anticline, east of Birk Crag, thereby revealing 
many interesting sections of the upheaved Kinderscout Grit 
and its mantle of drift, but has also involved the widening 
Erratic of Plumpton Grit, Harrogate. 
16 ft. Oin. in length. 
of Irongate Bridge Road, where it abruptly descends the anti- 
cline to the Oak Beck, by what is locally termed Birk Crag 
Hill. 
Here, and apparently for some distance westwards, the 
drift lies in a thicker cloak, and is of more varied character 
than that encountered in making the new portion of Kent 
Road ; also it entirely envelopes the underlying grit. 
Eastwards, along the new road, the sections show a bed 
of sandy yellow clay from four to six feet in depth, beneath 
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