Part I. 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE 
GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. 
Edited by W. LOWER CARTER, M.A., F.G.S., 
AND WILLIAM CASH, F.G.S. 
1895. 
OK ANOTHER SECTION IN THE SO-CALLED INTER-GLACIAL GRAVELS 
OF HOLDERNESS. BY THOMAS SHEPPARD. 
The Kelsey Hill Gravels, opened several years ago, are, I think, 
well known to all glacialists, but unfortunately the gravel pits at 
which Messrs. Phillips, Wood and Rome, Prestwich, Reid and others 
worked are now to a large extent overgruwn, and nearly all the 
sections recorded by those gentlemen are no longer visible. When 
the gravels first began to attract the attention of geologists the 
general opinion was that they had been deposited during a mild 
intei^-glacial period, during which a lower bed of boulder clay was to 
some extent denuded, and the range of gravel hills, of which Kelsey 
Hill is one, was formed from the material washed out ot this clay. 
The scarcity of scratched stones and other similar evidences of ice- 
action being the ground for this supposition," The few ice-scratched 
boulders noticed had the scratches almost entirely obliterated, and it 
was thought that these stones were first enclosed in the lower boulder 
clay, and the subsequent denudation was answerable for the grooves 
being removed. 
The numerous animals, mammoth, deer, rhinoceros, bison, &c., 
the remains of which were found in the gravels, were also supposed to 
be the inhabitants of this area during the time between the two 
Glacial Periods. 
* Prof. Prestwich on the occurrence of Cyrena fluminalis near HulL 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvii., p. 455. 
