LINCOLNSHIRE BOULDERS. * 
JOHN H. COOKE, F.G.S., 
Thorndale, Lincoin. 
FIRST PAPER. - 
Since County Councils have become a power in the land, a marked 
improvement in the state of the roads of the kingdom has been 
noticeable. But to make good roads suitable material is required, 
hence it is that we find that, in counties such as Lincolnshire where 
road material had to be carted from a distance and is therefore 
expensive, no opportunity is lost to utilise such treasure-trove as the 
Glacial Beds of the county may supply. In the course of my daily 
peregrinations through and around Lincolnshire, I frequently hear 
of large erratics that, having lain in neighbourhoods for untold 
centuries, have quite recently been sacrificed to the exigencies of our 
rgth century civilisation. 
As the opportunities that I have for seeing and for personally 
collecting specimens are exceptional, I am now keeping records of 
all boulders that I come across. 
I retain specimens of all of the rocks catalogued, and I need 
hardly say that my collection will be at the service of any who may 
be interested in this subject. 
ABBREVIATIONS.— A. = angular; S.A. = sub-angular; R. = rounded. 
Goxhill. 
1. Dolerite (S.A.), 24 in. x 21 in. x 20 in. At the corner of 
the. High Street. 
2. Shap granite (S.A.), 9 in. x gin. x 8 in. In the side-walk 
on left-hand side leading to the church. 
The side-walks of Goxhill contain great numbers of boulders of 
Dolerite, Basalt, Granite, and Quartzite. 
3. Secondary sandstone, 48 in. x 36 in. x 30 in., in the pond 
between Ranby and Bennisworth. - 
Habrough. 
4. A heap of boulders that had been collected from the adjoining 
fields for the purpose of making road metal contained 
many specimens of basalt, granite, flint, and one boulder of 
andesite. 
Yarborough. 
5. Augite granite (R.), 45 in. x 36in. x 33in. Thisis the boulder 
-. of the village. 
April 1897. 
