WALTON : SOME NEW SECTIONS IN THE HESSLE GRAVELS. 401 
able angle ; the gravels above following a similar direction, although 
the dip is variable in amount. They appear to be banked up against 
the Old Cliff. 
The north side shows : — 
Boulder Clay ... 
Contorted Gravel 
Gravel 
Sand 
Sandy Gravel .. 
The east end shows :- 
Boulder Clay ... 
Contorted Gravel 
Gravel 
Sand 
Sandy Gravel .. 
Ft. 
3 
5 
8 
2 
1 
20 
Ft. 
4 
18 
3 
2 
0 
27 9 base not seen. 
The sand in the southern part of the pit is much thicker, in 
fact there is very little gravel above it. At the base of the sand the 
beds of gravel become rather clayey, and it is just about this horizon 
that most of the bones have been found in this pit. 
The Contorted Gravels. 
The most interesting feature of these sections is the well- 
defined contorted position of the upper part of the gravel ; at the 
west end of this pit the contorted gravel is about five or six feet in 
thickness, but at the east end it can be traced in the gravel to a 
depth of eighteen feet. The contortions show tongues or wedges of 
gravel, &c, with the thickest portions, in a direction a little South of 
East to S.E. ; where this section shows its greatest thickness on the 
east end of the pit irregular patches of clay are also seen intruded 
into the gravel. In the north pit the same contorted appearance of 
the gravel can be seen, varying in thickness from west to east from 
four to eight feet, but there is this difference — immediately below 
the contorted part the beds are composed of sand with thin lines of 
gravel dipping at an angle of about 15°, and the upper part of these 
beds of sand and gravel has been removed so that there seems to be 
