502 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



Fields. — On leaving village for Ebb's Nook, subsidences in the field 

 shown as caused by old workings drowned out in 1813, by the admission 

 of the sea into the workings at low water-mark. An old copj r of legal 

 proceedings proves this to have been intentionally done by adjoining 

 colliery tenant. 



Further down the field the site and line of the Great Whin Dyke was 

 pointed out, crossing the footpath on its way from the sea towards the 

 west, and lying so near the surface that it causes the compass to deviate 

 if tried in its immediate vicinity. South side of dyke, dry and dusty. 



Colliery — Was recently repaired by Mr Craster. 



Harbour. — Limekiln in ruins being rapidly wasted away by the en- 

 croachment of the sea. 



Ebb's Nook. — The old chapel partly 

 cleared out by permission of J. Craster, 

 Esq., so as to trace the various portions 

 described by Tate in 1858. 



A few of the stone Syclatts with holes 

 for mutton bones were found during the 

 excavation, being the stone slates alluded 

 to by Tate. 



[A plan is here given of St. Ebba's 

 Chapel, from a drawing preserved in 

 Dr. Embleton's collection. Outside, the 

 mound of the churchyard wall is still 

 visible. In a great gale, the fishermen 

 said that two skeletons had been laid 

 bare. This is in addition to what is 

 mentioned in Club's Proa, iv., p. 109]. 



On the north side of Ebb's Nook could 

 be seen the rapid wearing away by the 

 sea of the shale underlying the Ebb's 

 Nook rock ; and evidences of the rapid 

 destruction of the rock itself could be seen 

 in the enormous boulders which had 

 fallen from the cliff. Evidence in half- 

 tide shaft, 8 ft. from cliff, and below the 

 high- water shaft some 90ft. from the ' 

 cliff. As both these shafts must have 

 been sunk when thei-e was a solid cover- 

 ing above and out of reach of the tide, 

 they show the encroachment of the sea 

 within no great period. Both of these 

 shafts have been put down for the 

 purpose of getting at the Drybnrn or 

 Lowick coal which lies a few feet below, 

 and is given by Tate as 12 in. thick. 



Shore. — Then following along shore 

 to northwards, the 8 yard Limestone was 

 pointed out, and next halfway along the 



