483 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



About two hundred yards weft from this column, is a high hill, 

 called Ycverirt^-Bell, from its bell-like fhape ; the top of an oblong 

 figure ; a karn on the eaft fide, with a circular trench ; many cir- 

 cular foundations of buildings upon the fides or flopes of both ; 

 the whole encompafled with a wall of whinftone of a great breadth 

 and length, fallen down by age and temppfts ; the work feem^ 

 ing'y of the pagan Danes, for their prieflhood and nobles toaflem- 

 ble on, for legislation, for devotion, and for fepulture. 



Half a mile fouth-weft from Yevering-Be/l, is another karn, 

 compofed of a large conic heap of fmall whinftones. It is called 

 Tom Tal/ons Grave. Hard by, to the eaft, is a clufter of broken 

 rocks, called Tom Tallon's Crag, from its fituation near the karn. 



On the top of Newton-Ton; Eqft Torr, or Green Torr, juft by, is 

 another karn ; alfo one on the top of Weft Torr ; hills facred to the 

 pagan god Thor, or 'Jupiter. There is alfo a karn on the weftern 

 point of Cheviot ; alfo another upon the hill, called Whitelaw, a 

 mile to the fouth-eaft from Yevcring-Bell, from which it is in 

 fight j as are all the reft. 



A mile weft from Tever'mg^ is 



Kirk-Newton, a fmall village, one of the manours of the baro- 

 ny of Wark> of which it was held by the antient family of the 

 Strtffrers ; by Sir Henry Strother in the reigns of K. K. Edward II, III; 

 by William Strother^ in the reign of K. Edward VI; by Mark Strother, 

 Efq; high fheriff of Northumberland, i K. George I. It now belongs 

 to John Strother AVrr, of Fowbury, Efq. 



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 Two miles weft from Kirk-Newton t is 



PaJIon, 



