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fashioned by human labour at a very remote period. In 
one of the cavities were found fifteen skeletons, one of 
them being that of a child. The discovery of a bronze ring 
would appear to indicate that these individuals belonged to 
the bronze age, but there were also found a stone axe 
(nephrite), and bears’ teeth pierced to form necklaces. The 
first grave was explored on the 24th January, and further 
examination was in progress. 
Mr. Brocebank, F.G.S., exhibited a large collection of 
granites from the Ravenglass district, and from Criffel, 
which he had got together with a view to proving the 
origin of the large granite boulders recently found in the 
glacial clay or till of this district. 
The fine boulder recently placed in this Queen’s Park, and 
which was found in the railway cutting through the drift 
clay at Collyhurst, proves to be of Ravenglass granite, such 
as is found in Eskdaie, about four miles above Ravenglass. 
It is a very fine example of a glaciated boulder, being 
polished and scratched on several sides, and very little 
'weathered, so that it is pretty much in the condition in 
which it was when deposited in the clay. 
Two large boulders were recently found in the foundations 
for the corporation buildings near the Manchester Exchange. 
One of these is of Ravenglass granite, of a deep red colour, 
such as is now found in the Muncaster Fell quarries about 
two miles from Ravenglass. 
The other is a most interesting specimen differing greatly 
in appear ence from the Queen’s Park boulder, in being 
much weathered, and presenting no worn surfaces except 
one of its sides, and no ice markings. Tins may partly be 
accounted for by its having been found in the gravel, but 
the writer believed it to point to other glacial conditions 
than those which had obtained with the Collyhurst boulder. 
This granite appears to be identical with that now worked 
