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A CONTRIBUTION to the HISTOKY of the 

 " CALDEKSTONES," near LIVEKPQOL. 



Put together by Professor W. A. Hekdman, D.Sc, F.B.S. 



(December, 1896.) 



" I lay me down upon the thymy turf 

 Beside these mouldering stones, the silent tomb 

 Of ancient hunter, or the tumulus 

 Of warrior old ; quiet and undisturb'd 

 Beneath the waving fern their reliques lie, 

 And on their shelter'd bones, in frequent whirls 

 Thick fall the autumnal leaves ! " 



From poem suggested by scenery in the 

 neighbourhood of A llerton and Woolton 

 Hill ; by William Stanley Roscoe, 

 1834. 



Introductory. 



The " Calderstones " are, as they at present stand, a set 

 of six red sandstone (triassic) slabs, which form a small 

 circle on a triangular plot of grass at the junction of 

 Druids Cross Road and Beech Lane with the Calderstones 

 Road about four miles south-east from Liverpool Exchauge, 

 on the way to Woolton. The stones are rough in surface, 

 irregular in shape, and vary in size from about three feet 

 by two feet to about six feet by five feet in length and 

 height, they are all from one foot to eighteen inches in 

 thickness. 



The circle is enclosed by a low wall and a stout iron 

 railing, and we learn from an inscription on the wall 

 that the Calderstones were "enclosed and planted" by 

 Mr. J. N, Walker in 1845. The word " planted " in this 



