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the bed of clay itself, 15 or 16 feet above the New Red Sandstone rock, 

 gimilar to the boulders themselves, which underlies the clay. 



The height of the group of granite boulders was 2 feet or 3 feet 

 heloiv low water at ordinary spring tides. 



About three acres have been at present excavated. 



Yorkshire. — In previous reports a description has been given of Shap 

 Granite Boulders, found in the neighbourhood of Filey. 



One of these Shap Granite Boulders has now been removed to the 

 University Museum, Oxford, and placed, with a descriptive inscription, 

 on the lawn in front. 



It was found near the edge of the cliff about half a mile N. of the old 

 church, Filey, Yorkshire. 



It measures 3 ft. 1 in. x 3 ft. 7 in. x 1 ft. 9 in., and is subangular or 

 rounded. 



It has apparently been moved, although nothing is known respecting 

 this point. 



Shap, near Penrith, the nearest place where a red porphyritic granite 

 of the same character is found, is 108 miles distant, bearing W.N.W. 

 from Filey. 



The boulder described rested on Oolitic strata, at a height of about 

 150 feet above the sea. 



Anglesea. — Professor T. McK. Hughes draws the attention of the 

 Committee to a boulder which occurs near the centre of Anglesea. It is 

 chiefly interesting as having been by some considered an inscribed stone ; 

 but the supposed characters are entirely due to rock-structure. 



It consists of bands of porphyritic hornblende diabase, occurring 

 along master joints in ordinary hornblende diabase ; with cross joints 

 tei'minated at the master joints, and having the appearance of runic 

 characters. It measures 7 ft. x 5 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. It occurs in a 

 field on E. of the railway opposite Cae Scynan, about f mile S. of 

 Llanerchymedd, Anglesea, and may have been derived from a dyke near 

 Gorphwysfa, about 7 miles distant. 



Attention has already been called to this boulder by the Rev. W. 

 Wynn Williams in the ' Archajologia Cambrensis.' 



Leicestershire. — Mr. J. Plant continues, as follows, his reports to. the 

 Committee on the erratic blocks of this county. 



In the parish of Knighton, on the Clarendon Park Estate, Leicester, 

 are two boulders, the longest 5 ft. x 4-J- ft. X 3 ft. 9 in. ; the smallest 4ft. x 

 3 ft. 1 in. X 2 ft. 3 in. They are subangular and not known to have been 

 moved. They are derived from Mount Sorrel, W. of N. a few degrees, 

 7 miles distant. The two blocks are of granite, and lie close together at 

 a height of 300 feet above the sea-level, and were found under 8 feet 

 of mottled drift clay in digging out foundations of houses. 



In the parish of Stoughton, on the ' Dairy Farm,' near Leicester, are 

 two blocks of granite, the longest being 4 ft. x 3 ft. x 2^ ft. They are 

 subangular and not known to have been moved by man, and are derived 

 from Mount Sorrel, 9 miles N.W. They lie together on the surface, 360 

 feet above the sea-level. 



In the parish of Evington, on the Lodge Farm, Leicester, are three 

 blocks of granite, the longest 4| ft. x 2^ ft. x 1 f t ; the smallest, 3 ft. X 

 2^ ft. X 1 ft. ; they are subangular, and have been derived from Mount 

 Sorrel, 7 miles N.W. The three blocks lie close together on the surface, 

 360 feet above the sea-level. 



