193 ~ NOTES ON EXCAVATIONS OF OLD BURTON BRIDGE. 
side has a row of roughly made oak piles, and then a layer of large 
rough stones, on which the pier was built. The piles are about four 
inches square, and probably not more than 200 years old. The 
masonry here (I) was very roughly tooled, but drafted at the edges, 
from which it would appear to be old stone that had been re-worked 
and re-laid within the last 200 years. This stone work is shewn in 
Photograph No. I. 
No. I. 
The masonry at II (shewn in Photograph I), shews the same 
rough tooling, but not to so marked a degree; while the single stone 
at III (shewn in Photograph III), shews no sign of having been 
drafted, and appears to be in the original position in which it was 
laid, and was probably much the oldest work. 
Mr. Rye most kindly came over from Bakewell on May 30th to 
