i S ADAMSOX : THE YORKSHIRE BOULDER COMMITTEE. 



ihc Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, held four days later, this resolution 

 was unanimously confirmed. The Boulder Committee being now 

 in actual existence, its first meeting was held on Dec. 23rd, 1886, 

 when a draft scliedule upon which to record observations was 

 submitted and ado[)ted. A copy of this schedule was given in The 

 Xatiiralisi for May 1S87. Upon the ist Jan., 1887, this schedule 

 was issued to Yorkshire geologists and to each society affiliated with 

 the Union, with the satisfactory results before alluded to. The 

 detailed reports comprised in the first year's work of the Committee 

 are now ])resented. 



THE ' GREYSTONE,' LEEDS. 



C. D. HARDCASTLE, 

 p7-esident of the Leeds Geological Associatio7i. 



Situated in Parish of Leeds, one mile from the town, on the side 

 of the old highway to Bradford, opposite the northern end of 

 Ventnor Street, on property belonging to the ' Pious Use Trust.' 

 Only 6 in. in height, is now exposed above the causeway, and it 

 projects 6 in. from a garden wall which is built over it. The base of 

 the exposed segment along the flags measures 2 ft. 10 in. Old 

 inhabitants say it was formerly from 4 ft. to 5 ft. above ground, and 

 from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in diameter, but of irregular form. Its entire length 

 is perliaps 7 ft. or S ft. Thoresby, in 17 15, calls it 'a prodigious great 

 stone." Probably originally nearly rectangular. There are indenta- 

 tions in the stone, but not natural. Millstone Grit, similar to that 

 of Horsforth and Bramley Fall. The .Rough Rock of Horsforth is 

 about four miles distant on the same side of the river, and at a 

 considerable elevation, some of the quarries being about 475 ft. 

 above the sea. The stone has probably come from there. Bramley 

 is about three miles away, on the opposite side of the river, and at 

 an elevation of 200 feet. The Greystone legend is that a huge giant 

 hurled it from the Ciiant's Hill at Armley, about half a mile distant 

 on the opposite side of the river : in proof of which statement the 

 indentations of the sjiant's thumb and finders are still to be seen. 

 The Giant's Hill, however, belongs to the Flagstone Series of the 

 Lower Coal Pleasures, whereas the ' Greystone ' is Millstone Grit. 

 115 ft. above sea-level. On the 6 in. Ordnance Map— Lat. 53° 48' 

 40", Long. 1° 34' — as 'Greystone.' An ancient boundary stone. 

 Has served from time immemorial as boundary stone separating the 

 manors of Leeds and Burley. Thoresby, in 1715, quotes an old 

 MS. survey, N.D. (Lapis cinereus ingentis magnitudinis admodum 

 antiquatis et vetustatus existens = The Greystone of great size, very 



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