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THE FOSSILIFEROUS DRIFT DEPOSITS AT KIRMINGTON, Etc. 177 
Investigation of the Fossiliferous Drift Deposits at Kirmington, 
Lincolnshire, and at various localities in the East Riding of 
Yorkshire.—Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. W. 
LampiueH (Chairman), Mr. J. W. StaTHEeR (Secretary), Dr. 
TEMPEST ANDERSON, Professor J. W. Carr, Mr. W. LOWER 
CarTER, Dr. A. R. DwerryHouss, Mr. F. W. Harmer, Mr. 
J. H. HowartH, Rev. W. JOHNSON, Professor P. F’. KENDALL, 
and Messrs. G. W. B. Macturx, EK. T. NEwTon, CLEMENTS 
Rep, and THoMAS SHEPPARD. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
In our report for 1907, presented at the Leicester meeting of the Associa- 
tion, it was mentioned that difficulty had been found in obtaining per- 
mission to excavate on a site in East Yorkshire, on which it had been 
intended to carry on the work. This difficulty proving insuperable, the 
committee decided to carry further the investigation already begun upon 
the Bielsbeck site, as described in the report above mentioned. 
The extent of the fossiliferous deposit at this site had already been 
partly determined by boring tools, and it was hoped that by sinking 
small pits in places not previously explored in this manner, further 
results of interest might be obtained. This has now been done so far 
as the funds still remaining in our hands would allow, and a further 
collection of bones and other fossils has been secured, without, however, 
materially adding to the previous lists. It is not therefore proposed to 
apply for a further grant, and it remains only to describe the work of 
the last season. 
The position and previous history of the Bielsbeck deposit was 
described in our report for 1907 and need not be repeated. The work 
done last autumn (1908) was the sinking of a series of trenches or pits, 
each having a diameter of from 8 to 10 feet, as shown on the plan and 
sections, pp. 178 and 179 :— 
Tt will’be seen from the diagrams that in pits Nos. 1 and 6 the 
unfossiliferous gravel rested directly on the Keuper Marl, but that in the 
other pits a wedge-shaped mass of the fossiliferous black mari intervened 
between them. From this material, in pits Nos. 2, 3, and 4, were 
obtained numerous bones, mostly more or less imperfect. These bones, 
which in the aggregate weighed about 1 cwt., have been preserved, and 
the determinable specimens have been submitted to Mr. HE. T. Newton, 
F.R.S., who reports that two species of animals alone appear to be 
represented, viz., Elephas primigenius and Bison priscus. Of the 
former animal the remains included :— 
Bones FRoM Bietspeck, 1909, 
Elephas primigenius? 5 pieces of a tusk. 
distal end of humerus. 
shaft of humerus (4 pieces), 
3 = ditto. 
* 4 piece of pelvis. 
distal end of fibula. 
1909. N 
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