72 - Field Notes. 



The district has not yet been searched exhaustively. 

 Some years ago Sir Joseph Prestwich found a flint flake in the 

 deserted pothole below Gaping Ghyll, and I have since found 

 several others of flint and chert, including a very rough flint 

 arrow head, in that i)otholc. The industry is probably Neo- 

 lithic. As these objects were found as the result of short 

 search in the earth thrown up by rabbits, I feel that organised 

 excavation in this and other potholes would yield valuable 

 information. 



I have touched only on a few points of interest in connection 

 with the rigid block. To me, as to others, it is an area of 

 extraordinary fascination. This is increased if, standing on 

 some prominent height such as Ingleborough, we view in 

 imagination the earth waves from north, west and south 

 breaking through long geological ages against this stable mass, 

 which is not only a part of the backbone of England, but at 

 any rate, in the geological sense, the very core of Yorkshire. 



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Unusual Capture of a Big Yorkshire Salmon. — A fine 

 Salmon was caught in the Esk last November. It was a 

 cock fish, weighing 29 lbs., with a length of 3 -ft. 9 ins., and 

 a girth of 22 J ins. It was hooked by Capt. J. G. Soulsby 

 when bottom fishing, but after playing it for 25 minutes the 

 line broke and the fish sailed away with the float, hook and 

 8 yards of line. In the afternoon, 4 hours after the fish broke 

 away, the float was observed in the stream. Mr. James 

 Schofield cast a ' Devon ' minnow across and succeeded in 

 catching the gut underneath the float, and after a vigorous 

 35 minutes fight, succeeded in landing the fish. — R. Fortune. 



Sturgeon at Scarborough. — On November 22nd, a large 

 Sturgeon was landed at Scarborough by the Steam Trawler 

 ' Strathavon.' Measuring 12 ft. in length, with a weight of 25 

 stones, it was larger than the majority of North Sea specimens. 

 It was sold by auction for £16 6s. A smaller example was 

 recently landed at Bridlington. (See The Naturalist, Nov., 

 1920, p. 372). Another Sturgeon, taken in the nets of the 

 Steam Trawler ' Renaissance,' was landed at Scarborough on 

 December 2nd. It was much smaller than the one captured 

 a few days previously, and weighed three stones. On Decem- 

 ber 22nd a Sturgeon, 7 ft. long, was landed at Scarborough 

 by the S.S. ' Champion.' This is the third recently landed 

 at this port, others have been landed at Bridlington and 

 Yarmouth, pointing to a small immigration of these fish into 

 the North Sea. — W. J. Cl.vrke, F.Z.S., Scarborough. 



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Wc notice among the recent additions to the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum, London, is a ' Thirteenth century church door with some good 

 iron work on it, from Dunnington, Yorkshire,' 



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