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the lead vein were mixed with the debris. Mr Topley alludes to 

 this circumstance in Luckley's Gruide to Eothbury, p. 52. " A 

 lead vein was worked many years back, on the hill-side above 

 Whitton-dene, where it never yielded much ore. Another vein 

 has been worked at Redpath — this passes through limestone and 

 has yielded a good deal of ore." The AVhitton vein runs S.W. 

 over f of a mite. The chief lichens noted on the flat sandstones 

 on the moor were Spharophoron coralloides and Borrera ciliata. 

 Lancashire Asphodel and sundew grew in the sphagnous bogs, 

 and Leucolryum glaucum on the dry bare moor. We looked at a 

 strongly walled quadrangular sheep and cattle fold, divided by 

 a central wall into two oblongs ; what would be called in olden 

 time a Bercaria. Other still more pristine folds had previously 

 occupied the site, as was indicated by old foundations ; and it 

 was probably in connection with them that a line of upright 

 stones of moderate size, commenced to run southwards over 

 the moor till they were abruptly interrupted by a decayed stone 

 fence that crossed them, beyond which had been a breadth of 

 cultivated ground, as was evident by the ridges, but now aban- 

 doned and become rough pasture. The stones had been removed 

 from here, but recommenced and ran up the hill in line across 

 the heather to Lordenshaws camp. They appear to be of the 

 same age as the camp, which they almost enter at the east gate. 

 The camp has similar standing stones at its gateways, and incor- 

 porated in the structure of its ramparts. 



In ascending the hill towards the camp, some of the flat rocks 

 carried sculpturing of rude cups and circles with central cups 

 destitute of tail grooves. There was an opened cist adjacent, 

 with the lid placed at one side. A place was pointed out lower 

 down the face of the hill, where smugglers once had had conceal- 

 ments ; and smuggling tales are still told by the shepherds of 

 the back and wilder wastes. The camp is very strong and triple- 

 ringed and contains several hut-circles, of which we saw three ; 

 but there are seven very large ones, according to Mr Scott. One 

 of these, of six yards diameter, has been excavated, and had been 

 provided with a paved floor of flat sandstone. The walls of the 

 huts are stronger, and stand higher above the soil than some of 

 the half-effaced hut-circles among the Cheviots, and altogether 

 have a more recent aspect. They have a strong mutual resem- 

 blance to those on the Titlington Hills and the hill above East 

 Bolton, both in their size and the height and strength of the 



