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IN THE NORTH RTDINT! OF YORKSHTin:. 343 Anotlicr tunmlus, according to the same tradition, was on a lieiglit three (juarters of a mile soutli-east of Stone Man, and a quarter of a mile south of Feldom Rig ; this is said to have contained a stone chest, or coffin, and by the side of it a cacl pot, containing coins, but the discovery of the coins is disputed,^ There is also a round hill with fir trees on it, on the road from Gayles, over the moors, a little south of a cottage called Paces House, which has much the appearance of an ancient tumulus. It seems placed as a guide to mark the turn towards the entrance to the camp along the line of approach from the eastward, which is probably an ancient road. KIRKBY RAVENSWORTH. This place has the character of an anciently fortified posi- tion, though no positive remains have been discovered there. About 220 yards west of the church, a dike or way seems to have crossed the road, towards what had probably in late years been a quarr}^ and, stretching up the hill along the western boundary of the glebe lands, to have turned off into a valley, where a stream joins the Whashton Springs brook. This stream crosses the road from Whashton to Sturd3diouse, about 1100 yards south of Whashton. This may have been the ancient way from llavensworth Castle ; but the name Hcrfjill, applied to the road up the hill, close to the quarr}" above-mentioned, may possibly indicate that the occupation of the ground about the church dates from a very remote and even from the British period. The ruins of Ravensworth Castle stand on a less exposed situation than the church, close to the village, and near the ford over the Gilling Beck, which probably gave name to the • J.imcs Coates, an old resident at assume at the pre.sent time." He further Kirlvby Kavenswortli, " can remember says, that "his fatiier found another skcle- havingheardhisfathersay,thatheassisted, ton in a stone coffin on a nei<:hhoHrinj:j wlien younp, to lea<l stones from the luap hill, between !<tfine Man and the farm- called Stmif Man, to make the fences at house calle<l Feldom Ilii; Fann ; the liei^lit the time of the enclosure of the com- is on the south of the road, and is called mons. Sprin<;s Hill. " That in so doing, the skeleton of a mnn " His father was quarrying stones at the was found ; and that Mr. Wyclitfe, who time when he broke into the place; and in then lived at Gayles Hall, ordered that the the square coffin was a rad pot, but what bones should be replaced, and gave a man was in it is unknown, thouiih it was s^aid at of the name of I'orter lialf-a-crown to the time that his father had found money build u]) the stones in the form they in it." Oral Tradition. August, 1848.