TATE : THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE. 61 
west, a short distance up the hill. I visited it in company with 
~Mr. Loy, of Keld Head, the owner of the land, who declares that he 
has found pieces of smoothed granite while ploughing was in progress- 
He also said that the line of stiff-clay backed up the water in the 
land higher up the slope, and that he had had to drain through it in 
several places ; he also pointed out that all the ponds in the pastures 
were in the same line. While draining he found the clay packed 
with debris. I saw no granite, but there was a quantity of stone on 
the surface, mostly different kinds of grits and limestones. Mr. Loy 
said that below the subsoil it was ‘all red rock,’ probably sandstone. 
This place was up Crook Lane about half-a-mile north-west of 
Pickering (alt. 150 ft.). We then went over Wrelton Cliff and along 
Highfield Lane, about three miles further west, and were joined b 
Mr. Harrison, of Riseborough, the owner of the land. Wrelton Clift 
{alt. 208 ft.) is an outlying spur shown by a railway cutting to be 
Kimeridge clay. The sides and top are coated with a stiff-clay of 
different quality, full of smoothed pieces of grits, limestones and 
spar; by the roadside are blocks of smoothed and scratched grits 
with a skin on them, up to about two feet in diameter; they were 
said to have been dug out of the land when the road was widened a 
few years ago. Mr. Harrison said that when excavating for a cellar 
the clay was full of ‘cobbles of different sorts’ (alt. 166 ft.). The 
Report is accompanied by a carefully prepared tracing of the district, 
from the six-inch Ordnance sheet, No. g1. The attention of 
Mr. Comber having been called to the following extract from 
Prof. Carvill Lewis (Glacial Geology, p. 196), ‘Above Levisham are 
great piles of talus made up of angular debris which has slipped 
down from the cliff sides. The valley now becomes wild, with steep. 
rocky hills on either side, and choked up with heaps of talus, made 
by landslips and avalanches. No trace of drift. The local debris is. 
heaped up much like a glacial moraine at the highest part of the 
[Pickering] valley’; he remarked :—‘ This evidently refers to what 
is known locally as Signe Moor which is five miles to the north of 
Pickering and on an entirely different formation. ‘The Moor is just 
above the Kellaways rock, and shows no sign of boulder clay, but 
along the foot of the tabular hills which stand above it is a mass of 
angular talus evidently fallen from above as it is comprised of the 
same grits that cap the hills.’ 
Reported by Mr. E. HAWKESWORTH, Hunslet. 
SALTBURN.—Boulders placed in Saltburn Gardens for ornamental 
a ; probably taken from bed of Skelton Beck which runs. 
close b 
com oe a 
