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right hand raised above his head and with his left reclining 

 along his side, he advanced up to it and touched it about the 

 shoulder and to his astonishment the whole skeleton vanished 

 from his view at once and dissolved into dust. This person I 

 apprehend had been employed in the same work by which he 

 was discovered, and had been levelling the rough banks of the 

 ground for the reception of the Castle. The ground of this had 

 been originally as steep and as precipitous as it still remains to 

 the west and east, but as the steepness was mitigated and the 

 precipices were smoothed by cutting down the banks and spread- 

 ing their soil into a slope, a bank occurred here very tall and big. 

 The man' went incautiously to work, it rushed down upon him 

 before he was aware, and buried him as he was found, in 12 ft. 

 depth of earth. 



This was the line of the Castle towards the water, about. . 

 yards in all, here and within the western wall of the coal- yard, 

 I suppose ranged the west front of the castle. This is all 

 gone, and immemorially gone too, but opposite to the present 

 gate to the parsonage and near the village well, are, and have 

 been some remains, a beam of oak black with age and chisselled 

 for inserting the ends of joists into it, was found in the gutter 

 west of the wall five or six years ago, and is now applied to 

 keep up the failing road immediately above. About the same 

 time and in the same gutter, the wall of the castle was discovered 

 in its foundations. It was first dug up opposite to the well. It 

 then came up to a point of the bank in which I shall soon shew 

 some remains of the more southerly of the two northern walls. 

 It went on to a wall, that I shall equally notice soon, as the more 

 northerly of the two. It was thus traced for four or five yards, 

 and in the interval between the two walls was laid open an arch 

 of stone upon which the wall was supported, and by which 

 a spring of water was discharged from the castle into the lane. 



The well itself was the original well of the Castle. But it 

 was not exactly where it now is : a yard or two from it appears 

 an arch, in the wall of an adjoining house, which has been closed 

 up, and is almost buried in the growing soil. 



This was a well in which a boy was drowned about 70 years 

 ago ; it was therefore walled up across the mouth, and another 

 made, in a more open and less dangerous form near it. 



