222 .SHKPPAUD : NOTES ON ELEPIIAS ANTIQUUS AND OTHER REMAINS. 
Owing to the extensive excavations made during the last few 
months the gravels are rapidly thinning out, and nowhere exceed 
nine feet in height ; they were about twice this thickness when 
previously described." 
At present the section appears as follows : — 
Soil about 1 ft. 
Current-bedded gravel (chiefly local flint and chalk), 
w^ith occasional foreign pebbles, and in places 
streaks of sand and carbonaceous materialt ... „ 6 ft. 
Very tough earthy sand and gravel, stained with 
iron-oxide, containing, especially near the top of 
the bed, quantities of large boulders, chiefly Coal- 
measure sandstones (with rootlets) and others, 
which have evidently come from the west ... 2 ft. 
Total ... about 9 ft. 
The dip of the current-bedding is generally to the south-east. 
'i'lie gravel rests on an isolated hill of Great Oolite ClayJ at an 
elevation of 100 feet above O.D.,|| and at the bottom of the hill 
the Millepore Limestone is exposed in a small quarry. 
Occasionally large slabs of Kelloway Rock and Lias (with Ostrea 
liassica, etc.) are lying about in the bottom of the pit. Just now 
there is a large boulder of Whin Sill on the floor, standing on end, 
under the gravel. 
* Op. cit. page 408, which gives :— 
Top soil, etc. ... ... ... ... ... 2i feet. 
Rough stony gravel, ■with some sand, etc., about ... 9 ,, 
Yellow sand, with stony layers, etc. ... .. ... 5 ,, 
Total .. 16i feet. 
t This gravel in places is a good collecting ground for flint casts of 
galerites, micraster, terebratulfe, etc. 
X In March, 1895, I had an opportunity of examining a well that was 
being dug exactly half way up the hill for use at a house near. It showed 6 
feet of stiff blue clay, greatly stained with yellow, containing no fossils or 
stones. Below this was about 3 feet of yellow clay, then water prevented me 
from seeing further ; but at one end of the heap of excavated material at the 
top of the well was a quantity of fine yellow sand, which had no doubt come 
from below the 3 feet of yellow clay. See also "Geology of the County 
between York and Hull." (Ceol. Survey Mem.), 1S80, page 22. 
II The 100-feet contour line just circles round the top of the hill. 
