226 SHEPPARD : NOTES ON ELEPHAS ANTIQUUS AND OTHER REMAINS. 
seeing that by far the greater majority of the teeth, etc., found, not 
only at Elloughton, but in similar gravels elsewhere, belong to this 
species, I have included them under this head. 
The atlas vertebra is of especial interest, as it only rarely happens 
that this bone is found in gravel deposits."^' It was in some twenty 
pieces when I got it, and not until these were put together could the 
specimen be identified. Though a large portion is missing, there is 
sufficient to shew that the original dimensions were about 10| by 8 
inches. 
Regarding the gravels, Mr. Lamplugh states ** I have an impres- 
sion that these gravels may be the inland representatives of the 
Kelsey Hill beds."t The fauna of the lower gravel certainly has a 
similar to the fauna of the Kelsey Hill gravels, but the bones 
from the latter are generally well rounded and waterworn, often being 
like pebbles ; this cannot be said of the Elloughton remains. At 
Elloughton, too, they are found in far greater numbers than at Kelsey 
Hill. The absence of marine shells and scarcity of far-travelled 
stones in the Mill Hill deposits, a fact noted by Mr. Lamplugh, is 
another point of difference. These latter gravels are also angular. 
The same author has suggested that " the beds have accumulated 
in fresh water when the drainage of the lower Humber was encum- 
bered and the water dammed back by ice";J but no additional evidence 
seems to be forthcoming either to support or contradict this view. 
With regard to the Kelsey Hill beds, however, I endeavoured to 
explain in a paper read before this Society last year|| that the chain 
of gravel mounds stretching across Holderness to Paull, and over 
into Lincolnshire, was a terminal moraine of the Norwegian Ice- 
sheet. In this moraine the Kelsey Hill, Burstwick, and other gravel 
pits are dug. 
No doubt at one time the moraine would dam the drainage of 
the Humber, thus forming an extra-morainic lake§, but whether the 
* Dr. Henry Hicks has recently found one, together with other bones, in 
some gravels in London. See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xlviii., 1892, 
p. 453. 
t Op. cit., p. 411. :0p. cit., p. 410. 
II "On another section in the so-called Inter glacial Gravels of Holder- 
ness," Proc. Yorksh. Geol. & Polyt. Soc, vol. xiii., 1895, pp. 1-14. 
§ See C. Lewis' " Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland," 1894, 
which contains a chapter on *' Extra-morainic Lakes of England," with map. 
