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2. — WOOLER FOR EWART PaRK. 



The second meeting of the Club was held on Thursday, 30th 

 June, at Ewart Park, by the invitation of Mr and Mrs Butler. 

 The weather was somewhat threatening in the morning ; indeed, 

 so persistently did rain fall with a southerly wind that some 

 Berwick members returned thither by the first train from 

 Coldstream. Despite the unpropitious weather, however, a con- 

 siderable number of members, including some ladies, arrived at 

 Akeld Station from north and south about 10-30 a.m., and, 

 under the guidance of Mr Bolam, the Treasurer, walked or 

 cycled to Ewart Park, where they were graciously received by 

 Mrs Butler and her husband. Owing to the wetness of the 

 morning, the walkers had to abandon the idea of following 

 the course of the ''Glen" river, and had to keep to the 

 road. 



This being the first visit of the Club, as also of many of its 

 members, to Ewart, the company expected that a special treat 

 was in store for them in the many relics of bygone ages, and 

 specimens of art, in and around the house, which were readily 

 exhibited and explained by Mrs Butler. Attention was first 

 called to some excellent specimens of fossiliferous stones of 

 the Carboniferous period, to sundry querns, a stone cist, and 

 in particular to two sculptured stones showing concentric 

 circles, from Doddiugton and Humbleton. A memorandum 

 of the latter was supplied to the Club's Proceedings, at 

 the time of their being placed where they are, by Mr R, 

 Middlemas {Fide Vol. vii., p. 4.53.) 



It may be of interest to recall that this part of Milfield 

 Plain has been the subject of an exhaustive enquiry by 

 H.M. Geological Survey. In the "Memoirs of the Geology 

 of Part of Northumberland," by W. Gunn, F.G.S., and 

 C. T. Clough, F.G.S., reference is made to the Ewart 

 Estate, p. 81. 



" Generally speaking, the sand and gravel overlying the 

 clay are thicker on the Ewart Estate than they are further 

 north, this estate being mostly on sand, running sand, with 

 stiffer sand and fine gravel in thin layers. There are occa- 



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