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IN THE NOUTII lUDINO OF YORKSHIRE. 347 Hills, within the remembrance of people now living. Sir William Lawson states, that he has a deed early in the reign of Edward I., prol)ably about 1270, in which the field called Thruniiiiy Hills is written Thyrmhou, and that in another deed, dated 137G, it is written Thremhoes.^ There is a road running tolerably straight from Thorn- brough, in a westerly direction, which Sir William Lawson thinks may have been a Roman road to the lead mines to the south and west of Richmond. This seems more probable than that one should cross from Scorton to Brompton-on-Swale, as related by Warburton in his letter to Gale. He says, " This way, which comes from Easingwold to Thornab}, shows itself very plainly in the village of Romanby, from which place it goes to Yafforth, Langton, Bolton-on-Swale, and by the north side of the Eriery Wall in Richmond, to the top of Richmond Moor, where I lost it." ^ At present, tradition is silent, and evidence wanting to prove the line from Bolton to Richmond ; there is a tolerably straight line of road, which may be an ancient line, but no traces of Roman lines, such as those alluded to by Gale. The part said to be visible at the Pigeon-house at Scorton, keeping to the west of that building and village, thence crossing the road fi"om Scorton to Cittadella,'* seems more like the mai-k left bv water on a bed of oTavel, near a powerful stream when the valley was formed, than remains of an ancient road, or earth work of any sort. CASTLE HILLS. On the west bank of the Swale, about a mile south-east of Catterick, is the camp called Castle Hills. The form is an irregular pentagon, with the sides about QQ, 60, 44, 33, and 20 yards. On the north side is a tunuilus, separated, from the work by a deep ditch, which surrounds the camp, except on the side next to the river, where the bank is very precipitous, and about 40 feet high. The ram})art is as irregular as the form, for in some parts it is nearly level with the interior, and, towards the angles, -■ Probably from T/urntr, — (Hunt; and IIau>/r,— tumuluii, (Norse). ^ Clarkfon's History of Richinond. ' Traditional account on the spm.