164 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



" Earl's Seat, north of Falstone, North Tyne, height 1303 feet. 



" Sansen Seat, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. 



"High Seat, north of Muker, in Swaleclale, is called Eogan's 

 Seat in Ordnance maps. Hugh's Seat, at the head of the Ure, 

 perhaps now High Seat, a little north of Mallerstang Edge. 

 Eden, Ure, and Swale rise in the Mallerstang=Hanging Stones 

 on old maps." Howse. 



These seats are all in lofty places, useful as look-out stations, 

 and for making alarm signals, as fires, which can be seen at a 

 considerable distance. They are mostly on the heights of the 

 Pennine range. 



Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. 



Kaiser-stuhl, near Heidelberg. 



A Celtic, Scandinavian, Teutonic, and Latin word. It is 

 curious that the Port, should be so like to the Celtic. No doubt 

 seat is a word of great antiquity and very general use. 



Shacklesboeofgh oe Sheckelsboeough. 



See at Bueg, Buey, &c. 



" Shackle, a fetter, a chain to confine the limbs. M. E. 

 sehahhyl, schahUy Prompt Parv. A.-S. s<;e«cw?, abond — a loose 

 bond; evidently named from its shaking. A.-S. seacan, scacan, 

 to shake, with suffix ul, from Aryan ra; and brough, borough, a 

 fort, &c. "When and how was the name given? 



Shaw. 



Icel. " shogr (North E. and Scot, schaw or shaw, Dan. sTcov ; 

 Sw. shog ; perhaps akin to sJcuggi, of a shady place), a shaw, 

 wood, morl, being a forest." Cleasby. Suio-Goth. shugga, dcn.- 

 oicnilj wed. Mces-Goth. s/^a^ws, shadow. J)&n. sJcov^woodi-jskygge, 

 shade. Sw. sJcog, wood; shugga, shade. Al. scada. Ger. waldung, 

 ivald, wood ; schatten, a shade or shadow. Dut. ivQud, a wood ; scJia- 

 duw, shade. Belg. liout, wood ; hoscli, woud^ a wood; schadmv, shade. 

 ■ A.-S. wudu, wude, a wood, forest, tree ; scua, scadu, sceado, 

 sceadu, shade, shadow, shady wood; sceadan, scadan, to shade, 

 shadow, cover, 



