460 HISTORY OF THE BROWNEY VALLEY 



Is it not a wonderful record and deeply interesting ? And 

 perhaps the greatest wonder is that a few stones with much 

 sand and dirt can be the relators of such a story. The 

 boulders and travelled stones are the chief narrators of these 

 interesting changes. Many of them we can locate with 

 absolute certainty; and perhaps in time we may trace most of 

 them home, and so extract from them the full story of their 

 travels and adventures, making the history of our Browney 

 Valley complete. 



Precisely the same kinds of stones have been found by me 

 in the Red Hills, at Kimblesworth, Witton Gilbert, Lanchester, 

 Iveston, Burnopfield, Garesfield, and Marley Hill; and it is 

 chiefly from those in the upper strata of the deposits, namely 

 those that were the products of the retreating stage of the 

 Ice-age, that our story is woven. 



Appendix I. 



At a meeting of the Durham Naturalists' Union, ist July, 1905, I drew 

 attention to the following facts, and drew deductions therefrom : — 



Morainic deposits cover the district from the sliding braes between 

 Lintzford Station and Paper Mill to Greenside. They form seven 

 successive parallel hnes of hills along an axis running N.N.W., and 

 showing the line of retreat of the ice, which crosses the Tyne by 

 Eltringham. 



The parallel lines are : — 



1st. The Strother hills, about 300-ft. high. 



2nd. Beda hills and on to Chopwell, about 400-ft. 



3rd. A line by St. Patrick's Church, 479-ft. 



4th. A line by Hooker Gate, about 500-ft. 



5th. From Comb Wood to High Spen, 516-ft. 



6th. A line from Rickless to nigh Stella Hall and Park, in part 



known as Bewes Hills. 

 7th. Sand deposits at Gray's Well, Greenside. 

 8th. At Eltringham-on-Tyne a cannel coal similar to that found so 



freely in these parallel deposits is yet worked. This colliery 



is in the line of retreat of the ice dam. 



