2lG PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 174(). 



On the Siliiation of the ancient Town Delgovicia ; and of 1 Men of an Extraor- 

 dinary Bulk and fVeight. By Mr. Tho. Knowlton. N" 479, P- 100. 



Within 4 miles of this place (Londisburgh) have lately been discovered many 

 foundations in a ploughed field, which have lain buried for many ages; and 

 without any records or tradition of it. It was discovered by a farmer at Milling- 

 ton, as he formerly tended his sheep on one side of the hill, and on the opposite 

 side had perceived in the corn a difference in colour for some years before ; which 

 led him this summer to dig; and happening on the foundations, it encouraged 

 him, with Dr. Burton and myself, to dig likewise in several places; and in one 

 part was discovered a circular foundation 5 feet wide, and the plan within 45 feet 

 diameter; which it seems was a temple dedicated to Diana, said to have been at 

 Goodmanham ; but no appearance of it there was ever found. The distance from 

 Goodmanham to Millington, is about 5 miles; and there were likewise many 

 other foundations which had great quantities of Roman pavements within them ; 

 by which probably after the dissolution of the temple, it became a Roman station, 

 then called Delgovicia; which has been fixed at Goodmanham, Londisburgh, 

 Hayton, &c.: yet not the least remains ever appearing at any of those places, so 

 as to satisfy an indifferent inquirer; but in this just now discovered, the ruins and 

 foundations are a demonstration of the once grandeur of the place ; and doubtless 

 it was the abovementioned Delgovicia. The foundations lay about 18 inches be- 

 low the surface, and to the depth of 4 or 5 feet within the ground; and are on the 

 Wolds Hills, within 1 miles of Pocklington. 



Within a mile and half of Kilham, is a place called Danes Graves, near which 

 it is suppospd was fought a great battle, in which vast numbers fell ; and so were 

 laid in heaps, and covered with the chalky soil in little tumuli, of the space of 2 

 or 3 square yards; in which are found great quantities of human bones: and now 

 there is not less than an acre of ground covered over with them, joining close to 

 each other ; and it is one of the greatest curiosities of antiquity ever seen. 



About 5 miles from thence, in Rudstone church-yard, there stands up, on the 

 N. E. end of the church, a large stone, 30 feet above-ground, and what depth 

 within is not known. Neither is it known on what account this vast obelisk was 

 brought over land, so far as it must have been; because we have no quarries of 

 stone nearer than 20 miles of the place. All the wolds are barren of such mate- 

 rials: it is 5 yards about, and of a parallelepiped form. 



In the neighbourhood of Halifax, in Yorkshire, live 2 brothers, named Stone- 

 clift whose bulk and weight are very extraordinary: the eldest is a married man, 

 and has several children; about 40 years of age. He weighed 35 stone, odd 

 pounds, at 14 lb. to the stone; which we may reckon near 500lb. weight. His 

 brother weighs 34 stone odd pounds; and they make between them 70 stone, or 



