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NOTES ON ELKPIIAS ANTIQUUS AND OTHER REMAINS FROM THE 
GRAVELS AT ELLOUGIITON, NEAR BROUQII, EAST YORKSHIRE. 
BY THOMAS SHEPPARD. 
Read August 1st, 1896. 
Plate XXXVIII. 
About ten years ago Mr. G. W. Lamplugb, F.G.S., read a paper 
before tbis Society* in wbicb be mentioned baving found a tusk of 
a mammotb, 10 feet long, and also tbe tootb of a borse from tlie 
gravel pit on Mill Hill, near Brougli. 
After describing tbe gravel and remarking as to its probable age 
and origin, tbe autbor went onto say tbat analogous deposits else- 
wbere in tbe Riding contained a larger fauna, and be sliould at least 
expect remains of rbinoceros, bos or bison, and cervus to occur in 
this pit in addition to tbose of horse and mammotb. 
Since first opened tbe gi'avel pit has been steadily worked at, 
but unfortunately Mr. Lamplugb has been unable to pay tbe atten- 
tion to it tbat be would have liked. 
On Easter Monday, 1889, the Leeds and Hull Geological 
Societies visited this neighbourhood, an account of the excursion 
appearing in the " Naturalist" and the Transactions of tbe Leeds 
Geological Society for tbat year ; but since tbat date the gravels do 
not appear to have received the attention from geologists that they 
deserved. 
During the last two or tbree years, however, a large quantity of 
bones of different sorts have been obtained, and I have done niy best 
to preserve them, though in most cases I can only reiterate Mr. 
Lamplugb's complaint that as a rule they are found in a very friable 
condition. What became of tbe bones that were unearthed between 
Mr. Lamplugb's visits and mine I cannot say ; no doubt tbe work- 
men had not taken the trouble to preserve them ; in fact one of them 
told me as mueb. I am informed, however, tbat since the previous 
paper was read its author obtained anotber, though smaller, tusk, 
which he presented to the Museum of the York Philosophical Society. 
* Proc. Yorksh. Geol. and Polyt. Soc, vol. ix., 1887, p. 407-411. 
