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deposits. It was probably abandoned when the ice was unable to 
override the 700 feet contour. 
A large glacier passed up the rising ground at Woodgate to the 
western side of Lowick Beacon, oversteepening the cleft at Knapper- 
Map of Stainton Gap. 
thaw, and leaving a gravelly deposit at the junction of the roads and 
joining the Stainton Gap Branch in the Broughton Beck Basin. 
Although the Stainton Gap Branch (see Map above) was a 
much smaller branch than the last it is much more interesting. 
It is probable that it ceased to carry a through current of ice 
fairly early, and became the bed of a large stream of water 
