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at Ulrome, and coarse black pottery, with particles of chalk in it. 
Some beads, ornaments of jet, iron spear-heads, and Roman coins 
were also found. The whole of the above are in the possession of 
Mr. Parkinson of ]\Iarket Weighton, who has taken much interest in 
collecting them. 
On the whole the cuttings are decidedly interesting, though they 
do not add much to our previous geological knowledge. 
ON A BOULDER WITH CUP AND RING MARKINGS AT HORSFORTH. 
BY WILLIAM CHEETHAM, ESQ. 
The Boulder was found a year ago about six inches beneath 
the surface of the ground, when levelling for Lawn Tennis near Ash- 
field House, Horsforth, six miles north-west from Leeds, in the valley 
of the Aire, and about 400 yards north of the Calverley Station. 
The Geological Map shows the place to be on the line of the out- 
crop of Halifax Soft Bed Coal, The Boulder is composed of Millstone 
Grit, from the rough rock, the uppermost of the series, which here 
must be 100 to 120 feet below the surface of the ground. Conse- 
quently, to some extent, it is a travelled boulder, 5 feet by 4 feet, 
about 2 feet thick. As to how it got to its position : a suggestion 
has been made that it might have been brought by glacial action. 
But there is no need to carry the enquiry far, either as regards dis- 
tance or time, in connection with the numerous boulders which have 
been met with in the neighbourhood. During the last forty years I 
have had great numbers of gTit and ganister removed from the land, 
the latter were easily accounted for ; they were from under the Hard 
Bed Coal, which crops out a little higher up in the valley, and the 
grits were generally not much rounded, showing that they had 
travelled, but only a short distance ; indeed we have the Rough Rock 
in situ about half a mile westward, and faulted so as to be at a con- 
siderably higher elevation. Looking at the valley here as being 
about 400 yards wide at the lower and 4000 to 5000 yards wide at 
the upper part, rising some 600 feet, the wonder is not how these 
blocks of stone got where they have been found, but where the 
enormous mass of material that once filled the valley has gone to. 
