§ffiilhrs af t|e Jramsgrok Jistritt. 
By OLIVER GILES. 
HERE are in and around the town of Bromsgrove a large 
X number of erratic blocks, or boulders. Having spent the 
earlier years of my life in their immediate vicinity, I became 
familiar with these remarkable stones. At that time, however, I 
regarded them simply as stones, and nothing more ; much as Peter 
Bell looked upon the primroses on the river’s brim; but, with a little 
geological knowledge these blocks assumed quite a different aspect. 
My curiosity was aroused ; I looked around to see if I could find 
the rocks, from which they came, but could find nothing approach- 
ing to them in structure, or appearance. The local rocks being of 
Triasic age, and composed of Bunter Sandstone, Bunter Con- 
glomerate, and Keuper Marls, I became anxious to know whence 
they had come, how they had travelled, and how they had been 
deposited in their present position. Upon asking some of the 
older inhabitants, I was told that in days gone by, when there 
were giants in the land, they were in the habit of quarrelling, 
and throwing stones at each other ; and that they used stones as 
weapons of warfare, pitched battles being sometimes fought by 
different tribes, one party being stationed on Malvern Hill, and 
another on the Lickey ; the Malvern party having flung these 
stones at their enemies on the Lickey, a distance of about twenty 
miles in direct line. Most of these blocks lie round about the 
foot of the Lickey Hill. This legend is still believed by many 
of the old people in the locality, while others will tell you, that 
