and lacustrine deposit at Sand-le-Mere, about two miles north 
The peat 
-coastguards’ station, to a few hundred yards north, where the 
cliffs suddenly get kephier ; as long, in fact, as the bank of sand-_ 
Te the eis of a line of lata were observed sticking: : 
302 «Sheppard: Ancient Lake-Dwelling at Sand-le-Mere. 
from the numerous wild animals, and also protected from their 
more formidable enemy—man. In Scotland, Ireland, and onthe 
continent (especially in Switzerland) such dwellings have been 
met with in similar surroundings, and there can be little doubt _ 
that the remains of several lie buried in Holderness. The relics 
of British workmanship which are occasionally found in the beds _ 
of streams and other similar situations in this district may owe 
their on to their proximity to one of these ancient — 
habitat 
nan ee of the Hull Geological Society to Skipsea, 
in 1894, the end of a stake, which had certainly been pointed 
artificially, though in a very rough manner, was found at a 
epth of about four feet in the peat near the northern end of the 
Skipsea lacustrine deposit which is exposed in section in the _ 
cliffs. It was found at an angle of 45°, with the point down- 
wards beneath a dense mass of twigs and ‘brushwood,’ : 
containing hazel nuts and acorns, ‘a foot in thickness. A 
precisely similar bed was discovered in association with the — 
dwellings at Ulrome. (See Trans. Hull Geol. Soc., Vol. IL, 
1894-5, Pp ; 
On the Saturday previous to the excursion of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union to Spurn on Bank Holiday last, Mr. H. B. 
Muff, of Bradford, and the writer paid a visit to the peat bed 
of Withernsea. Thanks to the strong wind and rough sea of 
the preceding day, a large expanse of peat was laid bare on the 
beach just above low-water mark. It was exposed better than — 
I have ever seen it previously. Trunks of fir and other trees — 
were lying in the clay ; these, though perfect in form, were very _ 
rotten and almost as easily carved as the mud in which they 
occurred. Of greater interest, however, were some of the 
‘stools’ of the trees, still in the position in which they grew, and _ 
with their roots penetrating the clay in all directions. mies of 
these ‘stools’ measured nearly two feet in diameter 
bed was exposed from a point sat below the- 
dunes at the top of the beach, which stretches across the bed of 
the old mere from which ‘ Sand-le-Mere’ derives its name ; 
