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above the belt the denuding forces have quarried back the shale 

 in such a way as to leave an extensive platform surmounting the 

 steep wooded slopes. Upon this platform stands tbe farm-house 

 of Burrow Greens, and along the verge of it on the Ordnance 

 Maps, the name " Castle Hills " is written. I have learned 

 that the name " Castle Hills " survives as that of two fields in 

 that position, and it was probably obtained by the officers of the 

 survey from some old field book or farmer's agreement No 

 historian of Cleveland, so far as I am aware, has made any men- 

 tion of a Castle, or the indication of the former existence of a 

 castle at that place, and the latest of them — Dr. Atkinson — once 

 mentioned to me that he had never visited it The Ordnance 

 Survey Maps give no indication of an earth-work, as they usually 

 do where one exists. 



Suspecting that something of interest might turn up I recently 

 paid a visit of exploration to the place, and soon discovered that 

 my suspicions had an excellent foundation. At the angle of the 

 platform I found a space railed round and occupied by trees of 

 fairly ancient growth, such as the beech, the oak, and the haw- 

 thorn. Here had evidently been the structure responsible for the 

 names of " Castle Hills " and " Burrow Greens." Around three 

 sides of the space indicated there runs a well preserved moat, the 

 fourth side being formed by the almost perpendicularly-falling 

 bank. The enclosure thus formed is approximately square, the 

 corners behind being, however, somewhat rounded. It is about 

 50 yards in diameter in each direction. Immediately within the 

 moat is an irregular raised ridge, highest about the corners away 

 from the cliff. The centre of the enclosed space is slightly de- 

 pressed, but thj enclosure as a whole is somewhat raised — partly 

 by natural and partly by human agency — above the level of the 

 field behind. No trace of the stonework survives at the surface. 

 The situation is, in some of its features, not altogether unlike 

 that of Knaresborough Castle, but is considerably more elevated 

 above the encircling stream. Anyone visiting the spot must be 

 struck with its commanding position, overlooking as it does, the 

 entrance to the dale which connects Whitby with the Cleveland 

 plain. I must leave it to others to deduce from the name, the 

 appearance, and the position, the probable date of this so-called 

 Castle. 



March, 1893. The Glass Window. — Mr. William Brown, of 

 Trenholme, sends us the following extract from an old will which 

 he lately met with : — " 19th April, 1526. Rob. Ascoo of Grenowe 

 of the par. of Yngleby in Cleveland. My body to be buried in 



