28 Professor J. W. Gregory — The Englislc " Eskers". 



Castle and 1 mile E. of Lucker Station. It has been frequently 

 mentioned or described.^ Its N. end is at Spindlestone Hill, whence 

 it extends S. beyond Newham Station ; but it is not continuous 

 throughout that length, for part of the hills along that line I regard 

 as drumlins of sandy boulder clay. The kame is well shown on the 

 road from Lucker Station to Bamburgh, and there lies at the W. foot 

 of a series of drumlins ; from them it is separated by a moss that 

 represents an old pool, the overflow from which has cut a channel 

 through the kame, showing a section 40 yards wide and 20 feet high ; 

 the steeper side faces E. The kame is slightly sinuous. Its 

 material is a loamy gravel with angular, faceted pebbles and 

 boulders, on some of which glacial striae are distinct, though faint ; 

 its clayey nature is shown by the burrows on the kame there being 

 those of moles, not of rabbits, which swarm on the sandy patches 

 of the neighbouring drumlins. S. of the road the kame trends. 

 S.S.W. on a sinuous course, to the W. of the drumlin of Camp Hill, 

 and a gravel pit in the kame W. of that hill shows faceted pebbles 

 in loam. S.W. of Camp Hill, and separated from it by alluvium, 

 is Ell Hill, where there are many overgrown shallow gravel pits ; 

 in the lower part oi the deposits there boulders are scarce, but the 

 upper part is much coarser. A fair sample of the pebbles contained 

 Carboniferous limestone, 50 per cent ; cherty limestone, 10 per 

 cent ; Carboniferous sandstone, 18 per cent ; red grit, 6 per cent ; 

 basalt (the local whin), 10 per cent ; dark-grey porphyrite, 2 per 

 cent ; red andesite, 4 per cent. The last two rocks have come from 

 the W. from the Old Red Sandstone lavas near Wooler. S. of Ell 

 Hill the kame ends agamst a long drumlin of sandy boulder clay 

 that continues the line S. to Newham ; sections of the material — 

 a sandy loam free from pebbles and boulders — occur N. of Newham 

 on the road to Hen Hill. On the lower ground S. of Newham the 

 kame reappears and bends W. across the railway, S. of Newham 

 Station. The kame lies at a lower level than the adjacent drumlins, 

 which rise to the height of 195 feet at Golden Hill and 178 feet at 

 Camp Hill. 



This Lucker Kame consists of a loamy and not a sandy gravel. 

 The sand used on the roads is brought from the seashore, which 

 suggests that none is known along the kame. The pebbles are 

 faceted. Tate ^ recorded striated boulders in the kame, and this 

 report is quoted in the Mem. Geol. Surv., 110 S.E., p. 109, as if 

 unconfirmed. The presence of striated stones is also recorded by 

 Lebour and a well-glaciated cobble from Ell Hill (now placed in 

 the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow) confirms Tate's observation. 

 This ridge, from its loamy base, faceted and occasionally striated 



1 Ramsay, Phys. Geol. England and Wales, 1894, 6th ed., p. 262 : G. Tate, 

 Hist. Berwick. Field Club, v, 1866, p. 2.39 ; G. A. Lebour, Geol. Northumber- 

 land, 1886, p. 21 ; Geol. Assoc, Geol. in Field, 1910, p. 695 ; 3Iem. Geol. Surv., 

 110 S.E., 1900, pp. 108-9. 



- Hist. Berwick. Field Club, v, p. 239. 



