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the t Devil's Arrows' are desecrated by an appellation from 

 which we can only infer that to the Anglo-Saxons their origin 

 was unknown, just as Aid Wark and Auld Gang mark walls 

 and mines of Roman and British date. The tradition has been 

 already alluded to which places a British stone where ' Rey 

 Cross ' stands, and connects it with a story of King Marius, who 

 succeeded by favour of Geoffrey of Monmouth his father 

 Arviragus, the friend of Claudius ! 



The ' Long Stone ' is so placed near the old British village 

 on Danby Moor, as to be without doubt referable to the system 

 of which that little community made part. Several other stones 

 are near it. Near Swarthoue, which is a cairn in the same 

 neighbourhood, is a tall stone. Wade's Graves, for tradition 

 gives him two, near Goldsborough and East Barnby, are ex- 

 amples of stones 5 feet high ; and many others may be seen on 

 these north-eastern moorlands, but their dates and meaning are 

 uncertain, though to several the name ' Cross ' is added, as ' John 

 a Man Cross,' where ' Man ' seems British. Perhaps Wada 

 was Woden (Young, ii. 666). 



Between Hunsley Beacon and Drewton, a small village near 

 Hotham, is a stone called by the name of St. Austin. Near it 

 is the name of Rudstone Walk. Here what appears an old road 

 by the Beacon crossed the Roman Street. The stones are probably 

 British perhaps, as the name of Drewton may indicate, ' Druid- 

 ical.' The ' Pikes/ or single stones on a few of the summits 

 in the north-west, and on many of the hills in the south-west of 

 the county, have the same indefinite interest for the antiquary. 

 Circles and irregular groups of stone are frequent on the north- 

 eastern hills, and not rare in the south-west of the county ; they 

 are less common in the north-west, and hardly known in the 

 south-east of Yorkshire. In some degree this is explicable by 

 the prevalence of gritstone rock in the west of Yorkshire, and 

 the want of it in the south-east. On Mr. Newton's map several 

 of these are marked and named. It is almost impracticable to 

 make a complete and at the same time satisfactory list of them, 



