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report on the buried cltef at sewerby, near bridlington, 
by g. w. lamplugh. 
Introduction. 
During the course of my enquiries into the geology of this 
neighbourhood, I learnt that the tusk of an elephant had once been 
found in the cliff near Bridlington Quay by some fishermen, and 
I sought out one of the men, and questioned him as to the discovery. 
He told me they found the tusk in a bed of soft sand at the bottom 
of the cliff" near where the chalk ends, about two miles east of 
Bridlington Harbour, opposite the village of Sewerby ; but, when I 
came to examine the section, I could find no bed like that described, 
though I noticed that the chalk ended very abruptly, and also, that 
though the lower part of the cliff was much obscured by slipped drift, 
there were indications of beds between the boulder-clay and the 
chalk. I called attention to the discovery in a paper on " The 
Speeton Shell-bed" (in Geological Magazine, Dec. H., Vol. VIIL, 
p. 174), and suggested that the remains had been obtained from 
some unexposed bed which underlay the boulder-clay. 
The lower part of the section remained masked by slips till 
the winter of 1883-4, when the sea cleared away much of the 
displaced stuff, and revealed the long-looked-for bone-bed. I was 
first apprised of this by one of the fishermen who had made the 
previous discovery, who came to tell me that there were two bones 
in the cliff. I examined these bones, and thought that the gTeater 
part of a skeleton might lie concealed, and, not then having leisure 
myself to excavate the bed I acquainted my friend Mr. J. R. 
Mortimer, who at once sent workmen to extricate the remains. 
The bones, however, proved to be isolated and disconnected, and not 
members of a series ; nor were they, as I had surmised, the bones of 
the elephant whose tusks had been found, but were referable to Bos, 
or Bison. 
No further exploration was made at this time, but a few months 
later Mr. Clement Reid of the Geological Survey, who was at work 
on the Holderness drifts, visited the section, and finding it of 
