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lamplugh: buried cliff at sewerby. 
importance, had a cutting made, to show the sequence of the beds. 
He afterwards gave a sketch and short description of the place in 
his most admirable Memoir on Holderness," which is, so far as 1 
know, the first and only published account. 
Acting on Mr. Reid's suggestion, that further investigations 
should be made, the Yorkshire Geological Society granted last spring 
the sum of £10 towards the expenses of more extended excavation ; 
and it has been my very agreeable duty to assist my friend and 
neighbour, Mr. Thomas Boynton (late of Ulrome), in the superin- 
tendence of this work. 
Before we could commence, it was necessary to obtain the 
permission of the Lord of the Manor and owner of the land on the 
adjacent cliff, the Rev. Yarburgli Lloyd Greame, of Sewerby House, 
and the warmest thanks of the society, and of all interested, are 
due to that gentleman for his courteous acquiescence in our scheme. 
We started to excavate with two workmen on the 20th of July 
last, and with two more on the 25th, and worked on until the Gth of 
August, when the section was visited by the members of the society. 
We first cut a trench from the shore-line into the cliff at right 
angleSj^so as to show as complete a section as possible, and then 
excavated, for the space of about 40 feet, the deposits and talus 
which were banked against a buried cliff of chalk, revealing a very 
clear and instructive section, as shown in the sketch (Fig. 2). 
During the course of this work a very large number of bones, teeth, 
and other remains were unearthed, which, by a vote of the society, 
have been presented to the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society at York, on condition that they be kept together in a separate 
case as The Sewerby Collection." 
An Ancient Shore. 
The chalk which forms the bold headland of Flambro', ends 
abruptly on the south-west in an ancient sea-cliff. This cliff makes 
no feature at the surface, for the boulder-clays and gravels which lie 
so thick above the chalk on the south side of the headland, sweep 
on and obliterate the escarpment, so that, were it not for the coast- 
* Geological Surrey Memoir: Holuerness : pp. 47-49. 
