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seen in the wild moorlands have excited wonder. How and 

 when came they there ? has been often asked but never an- 

 swered. One such heap there is on the Eglingham moors ; 

 and another on the Harehope moors ; and both are in the 

 midst of Ancient British camps and dwellings. Respecting 

 them, there are no traditions, and connected with them are 

 no remains of furnaces or other buildings ; their great anti- 

 quity is unquestionable. At no great distance from them, 

 the common ironstone of the carboniferous formation occurs 

 along with coal and limestone. It is therefore not improb- 

 able, that these heaps of iron slag mark the spots where the 

 Ancient British people smelted the iron out of the stone 

 ore of the district. 



About 60 yards eastward of the Worm law barrow there 

 stood a Monolith (Plate XV. Jig. M) 8 feet in height, but it 

 is now prostrate; diggings were made around it, but without 

 yielding any results. 



Other Barrows. Near to Fortlet (C), a barrow (N), 

 having two large upright stones standing on its west side, 

 was examined, and at the depth of 3 feet charred wood was 

 found. 



On Swint law, three other Barrows (O, P, Q) were cut into; 

 one was 56 feet in circumference and 3 feet high, and at its 

 base charred wood appeared strewed over a rough pavement 

 of stones firmly bedded together ; another, near to the hut 

 containing the glass armlet, was 53 feet in circumference and 

 guarded on its east side by two upright stones ; and a third 

 smaller Barrow had also a stone standing sentinel in its south 

 side ; but none of these yielded relics. 



Tom Tallori's Grave. Southward of Yevering Bell, little 

 more than a mile, is Tom Tallon's Crag, an outbreak of 

 porphyry on the crest of a ridge ; and near to it, on a high 

 breezy hill looking westward to the Newton Tors, a very 

 large cairn stood, called "Tom Tallon's grave;" or "The 

 auld wife's apron fu' o' stanes." Tradition says nothing of 

 the hero whom the cairn has failed to immortalise, nor is 

 there any legend to give meaning to the phrase " The auld 

 wife's apron fu' o' stanes." Strange enough, large collections 

 of stones, great monoliths, and huge cromlechs have not un- 

 frequently been attributed to " auld wives." Ure, in his his- 

 tory of Rutherglen, describes as a Druids' altar a remarkable 

 cromlech, called the " three auld wives lift," tradition saying 

 that three old women, having laid a wager who would carry 

 the greatest burden, brought in their aprons the three stones 



