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HAWELL : A PEAT DEPOSIT AT STOKESLEY. 
some distance from the surface. These horns are described as 
having been "very large and curved and similar to those found 
in the railway cutting near Kildale Church." The horns found 
at Kildale were the antlers of Cei'vus elaplius and C. tarayidu&, 
but the similarity to those of the Stokesley horns, which crumbled 
away shortly after being exhumed, must not be too much insisted 
on. 
The deposit of peaty matter appears to extend over a con- 
siderable area on the eastern side of the Leven at Stokesley. 
I am informed by the local plumber that in sinking wells on 
the western side gravel is usually met with. In the Appendix 
to the Geological Survey Memoir on " the Geology of the country 
around Northallerton and Thirsk " the following section is given 
of a well at Stokesley Brewery : — 
ft. in. 
Made ground ... ... ... ... 1 2 
Beck silt 2 0 
Sand and gravel, with many pebbles of 
Magnesian Limestone ... ... 30 0 
Clay 30 0 
Sump and sand ... ... ... ... 8 0 
Brown clay ... ... ... ... 16 0 
Sand 3 0 
This Stokesley Peat Deposit is evidently Post-glacial in date. 
These Post-glacial peats or forest beds may be traced at many 
points in the Cleveland and adjoining districts. There are large 
tracts of them on both sides of the Tees estuary, extending from 
Hartlepool to Redcar. Near Hartlepool the bed is in one place 
40 ft. thick ! (See Proc. of Yorks. Geological and Polytechnic 
Society, 1883, page 224.) When the railway-cutting betv/een 
Ingleby Station and Battersby Junction was being made one of 
these deposits was cut into, and a large quantity of hedge- 
cuttings, sleepers, and similar material had to be thrown in in 
order to obtain solid ground for the railway. 
The peat bed which will be seen to-morrow near Kildale 
Station would appear to be of later date. In fact, I should 
