448 Mr. Tate on Yevering Bell, Sec. 



Barrow seven miles north of Pickering, 56 yards in circum- 

 ference and 8 feet high, he found, at the depth of 4 feet, some 

 pieces of a kiln-dried vessel, partially covered with a green 

 glaze, along with two flat stones, rubbed into a circular shape, 

 and some flints, including a lance head and two round in- 

 struments on the natural surface ; four feet further down 

 charcoal only was discovered.* These facts taken in con- 

 nection Avith the character of the glazed pottery in the Yever- 

 ing Fortlets suggests the inquiry, whether some at least of 

 the domestic vessels of the Ancient British people were not 

 glazed and of better manufacture than the ordinary cinerary 

 urns. 



The querns found bring again before us the fact, that corn 

 was cultivated and used at an early period ; and here I may 

 notice the extraordinary terraces or " baulks " as they are 

 locally called, which occur at Heathpool on the Colledge. 

 Similar terraces are seen in the valley of the Breamish, but 

 those on the Colledge are more marked, distinct, and numer- 

 ous. White hill near to the farm house is terraced to its 

 summit. These terraces are generally flat, but some are 

 slightly convex ; they are smooth and resemble carriage 

 drives cut out of the hill side ; they are not quite horizontal 

 nor are they all parallel ; some run into or inosculate with 

 each other, and in such cases one or two other terraces are 

 intercalated for a short distance. Their breadth is from 10 

 feet to 42 feet ; usually it is about 20 feet ; they rise above 

 each other by nearly perpendicular steps which vary in 

 height from 2 feet to 15 feet, generally it is about 4 or 5 feet. 

 I counted 16 of these terraces rising in succession above each 

 other on this hill ; but other higher hills in the district are 

 terraced in a similar manner up, I estimated, to the height of 

 1000 feet above the sea level ; and these high terraced hills 

 seemed in the distance like the gallery of a great amphi- 

 theatre with benches cut out of the hill sides. The want of 

 liorizontality and of parallelism shews, that these terraces have 

 not been formed by the action of water ; nor do I know of 

 any natural agent which would produce them ; evidently in- 

 deed they are the work of art — ancient terraces, I believe, of 

 cultivation for the growth of corn, most probably dating 

 backward to a very early period, as they are associated more 

 or less with Ancient British remains. They have been used 

 for this purpose down even to the middle of last century. 



* Bateman's Ten Years Diggings in Celtic and Saxon Graves, p. 204. 



