370 ]'i>rks/iirc Xd/nnilists ut Askcni. 



west, are two j^ravel and sand pits. The Campsall pit shows a 

 bed of yellow sand, above which is a red sand strong^ly 

 suy-gestive of Trias. The whole is topped with matfnesian 

 limestone s^ravel containing- sub-angular blocks. In Camps- 

 mount Park there are 8 feet of well-rounded magnesian lime- 

 stone pebbles resting on 2 feet of a greyish white sand, below 

 which is a foot of ' head,' and then the solid upper magnesian 

 rock. Here the sand is evidently of the same age as the pebbles. 



About a mile further to the north-west, or 2\ miles from 

 the Askern pit, is the Sheep Cote Upper Limestone Quarry, on 

 the south side of the Went Valley. On the slope immediately 

 west of this quarry is a magnesian limestone gravel pit, with 

 some sand intermingled with the pebbles. The gravel forms 

 a tongue, and is bordered on its western edge by a deserted 

 over-flow channel of the crescentic or ' in-and-out ' type. Haif- 

 a-mile to the west, at Westfield Farm, is another gravel pit 

 of well-rounded limestone with sand. It lies on the lower 

 magnesian limestone just below the 100 feet contour, or at 

 about the same level as the Sheep Cote gravel. 



On the north bank of the Went, near Kirk Smeaton Station, 

 2f miles north-west of the Askern pit, is a larg^e gravel pit, 

 consisting- almost entirely of magnesian limestone similar to 

 that at Askern. This gravel also lies to the west of solid 

 upper magnesian limestone rock, and is on a slope overlooking 

 the Went Valley to the south. A few Carboniferous grit 

 pebbles were noted in this pit. 



In the course of the afternoon a careful, but fruitless, search 

 for fossils was made in the upper limestone at Town s Quarry, 

 Lane Ends, Norton. Many fossiliferous blocks were noticed 

 in the gravels. 



A considerable amount of attention was paid to the Askern 

 Mount. This is a ridge of upper magnesian limestone with 

 easterly dips of 12° to 15. It is evidently an anticline, the 

 western side of which has been denuded, leaving- an escarpment 

 below which the sand and gravels have been subsequently 

 deposited. 



OKxrrnt^LOdV. — Mr. A. Wiutakhk writes : -A full list of 

 species of birds seen was not made. The most interesting of 

 those which were noted were the Hawfinch and Grasshopper 

 Warbler. Mention may also be made of the Common Snipe, 

 Reed Bunting, Waterhen with young. Ring Dove and nest 

 containing two eggs, and Sedge Warbler. The latter bird was 

 particularly abundant. 



Naturalist, 



