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firmly cemented tog-ether, and contains large boulders of 

 g-anister, Millstone Grit, etc., derived from the west. Of more 

 importance is the larg-e number of remains of extinct mammalia 

 which have been found in it. Mr. Lamplugh several years ago 

 recorded a tusk of a Mammoth, 10 feet long - , from this pit, 

 though it could not be removed owing - to its fragile condition, 

 and since then he has found a smaller one, with which he was 

 more successful, and it is now preserved in the York Museum. 

 Mr. Lamplugh soon after this second find left the neighbour- 

 hood, and since then I have worked at the pit a good deal, and, 

 with the assistance of the workmen, have got together a larg-e 

 series of mammalian remains. These include teeth, portions of 

 tusks, and a few pieces of bone of Mammoth (Elephas primi- 

 genius), the Straight-tusked Elephant (E. anttquus), Bison prisons, 

 Bos primigenius, Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) and another species 

 of deer, and Horse. This lower gravel and its fauna bears many 

 points of' resemblance to a deposit at Bielbecks which years ago 

 was fully worked out by John Phillips and others, and I have 

 elsewhere endeavoured to correlate these two deposits, i.e., the 

 Bielbecks and lower Mill Hill series. * 



The other gravels I refer to are on the low ground nearer 

 the Humber. They consist of current-bedded sands and gravels, 

 composed almost wholly of flat pieces of Millepore Limestone 

 (outcrops of which occur close by), with occasional lias and 

 other foreign stones. No mammalian remains have been found 

 in it, and in my opinion it is of the same age as the upper part 

 of the Mill Hill beds. A deal of work still requires to be done, 

 however, amongst these gravels. 



The British and Roman remains of the Brough district are 

 very interesting. Two or three British interments have been 

 unearthed, and objects of great value have been obtained there- 

 from. It would appear, therefore, that in British times Brough 

 was a place of no mean importance. There is not the slightest 

 doubt also that in Roman times there was a large station at this 

 point. This is what might be expected, seeing that the Roman 

 road from Lindum to Eboracum crossed the Humber here, and 

 the ferry then existed between what is now Winteringham on 

 the Lincolnshire side and Brough on the Yorkshire side. 

 Naturally, therefore, Roman relics are plentiful at Brough. 

 I have had an opportunity of examining large collections of 



* Xotes on Elephas anttquus and other remains from the gravels at 

 Ellougriton, near Brough, East Yorkshire. Proe. Yorks. Geol. and Polyt. 

 Soc., Vol. 13, Part 2, 1896, pp. 221-231. 



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