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it consists of the exposed edges of the strata, so set back, 

 the upper beyond the lower, as to give a step-like character 

 to this side of the hill — irregular belts of vertical rock, with 

 intervening strips of greensward of very varying breadth. At the 

 foot of these Rocks is a cave, known as " Harborough Hall " ; on 

 tlie brow above is a large block of stone, rudely hewn at no 

 distant date into a seat (the " Arm Chair "), and which commands 

 a wide expanse of characteristic Peak scenery ; and about two 

 hundred feet to the north, and also near the brow, is another 

 block (the "Pulpit"), beyond which the hill rapidly attains its 

 highest elevation — 1,243 ^^^^ above the sea. The site of the 

 barrow is between these blocks of stone ; and most of the village 

 remains came from the broadest terrace, a little nearer the south- 

 east extremity of the hill. 



The writer's assistants were Mr. Cornelius Gregory, son of the 

 farmer who lives at the farmhouse at the foot of the Rocks near the 

 Cave, and the two young Messrs. Rains, whose names, in con- 

 nection with the Longcliffe Cave, are well known to readers of this 

 Journal. Their intelligent appreciation of the work makes 

 these two days' diggings a most pleasurable memory. 



The writer's acquaintance with the discovery dates from April 

 last, when he found that potsherds and bones had been turned 

 up by Mr. C. Gregory, in the course of digging some months 

 before ; the spot being a grassy slope a little westward of the 

 house, that formed the floor of a natural passage leading up 

 to the broad terrace already noticed. This led to the exploratory 

 diggings of May 31st, now to be described. 



I. The Village Site. 



Our first operation was to make an extension of Mr. Gregory's 

 cutting up to and a Httle beyond the edge of the flat above. At 

 a depth, varying from eighteen to twenty-four inches, we reached 

 the subsoil of the hill — a disintegrated dunstone. Between this 

 and the six to eight inches of vegetable mould at the surface, 

 was a darker soil of variable character, but by no means sliarply 

 marked off from either. Most of the "finds" (consisting of 



