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slightly lower level than this raised beach, is built on a very 

 extensive spread of marine gravel. !N^o geologist can look at the 

 Northern, "Western, and Southern Escarpments of the Cleadon 

 Hills, with its lines of projecting cliffs, without being convinced 

 of the former insular character of this mass of limestone during 

 long portions of the glacial period. The inferences to be drawn 

 respecting the former depression and elevation of this part of 

 England during the glacial period must be left for a future oc- 

 casion. Our best thanks are due to our fellow-member, Mr. John 

 Daglish, for the liberal manner in which he has placed the ma- 

 terials for this notice at our disposal and presented the specimens 

 found in the Caves to the Museum. — Rieh((/rd Howse. Read at 

 Marsden, October Srd, 1879. 



On the so-called Sculptured Rocks of North Northumherland. — - 

 More than fifty years ago the late J. C. Langlands, Esq., first 

 observed and reported to the members of the Berwickshire JS'atu- 

 ralists' Field Club the existence of curious concentric circles on 

 the sandstone rocks near the ancient semi-circular encampments 

 on the brow of the hill above his residence at Old Bewick. Erom 

 time to time since that date attention has been called to these 

 and to other similar circles found in the neighbourhood of Wooler 

 and Ford by members of the Berwickshire Club. Among those 

 who have more particularly described them are Dr. Johnston in 

 Botany of the Eastern Border, Yol. I., the Rev. William Green- 

 well, in the Tyneside Field Club Transactions, Vol. VI., p. 20 ; 

 and the late George Tate, who took up the subject with his 

 usual zeal, and has furnished an elaborate paper, illustrated with 

 lithograplis by our fellow-member Mr. John Storey, of nearly all 

 the examples known to exist in this district, and advanced theo- 

 ries more or less accepted as to their origin and signification. 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. V. 



In 1853 Dr. Johnston, Nat. Hist. Eastern Borders, Vol. I., 

 p. 256, says, "I tliink that the circles we lie upon were made 

 by the soldiers of that camp (Bruueburh) in relief of idleness, 

 etc." Tliis conjecture seems not to have gained many advocates, 

 for, in his Bresidential Address to the members of this Class 



