HISTOEY OF THE CALDEKSTONES. 141 



Allerton Hall, who often passed that way, caused them 

 to be displayed." 



Mr. Mansergh, in his letter, gives a quotation from the 

 first edition of Baines' " History (&c.) of the County 

 Palatine of Lancaster," 1824-25, in which the Calderstones 

 are mentioned as Druidical remains, and the fact is noted 

 that . . . "in digging about them, urns, made of the 

 coarsest clay, containing human dust and bones, have 

 been discovered." . . . The quotation ends with : — 

 " Some of these urns were dug up about sixty years ago, 

 and were in the possession of Mr. Mercer of Allerton " 

 (vol. ii., p. 698). 



Some of the gentlemen mentioned above, and a number 

 of others, also wrote to me privately giving supplementary 

 information. Mr. T. C. Ryley adds to his published 

 letter that according to the scale on Enfield's map the 

 circle which marks the position of the Calderstones in 

 1768 is " as nearly as possible quarter of a mile to the 

 south-west of the cross-roads where the stones are now 

 set up." 



Mr. P. Cowell writes (Nov. 23rd) " I notice in 

 Bennison's map of Liverpool and neighbourhood, 1835, 

 that the Calderstones appear to be in a field quite removed 

 from any road or lane, but not near the Bragg's houses." 



I have myself seen this map and also Perry's, Enfield's 

 and others of dates between 1768 and 1835, both in the 

 libraries here and at the British Museum.* None show 

 the Calderstones in their present position at the cross- 

 roads. 



* I am indebted to Mr. T. N. Morton for kindly allowing me to examine 

 the old maps and records under his charge at the Municipal Offices ; to Dr. 

 Garnett, Mr. Fortescue, and others for help at the British Museum ; and to 

 Mr. Peter Cowell at the Liverpool Free Library, Mr. Sampson at University 

 College Library, and Mr. Shaw at the Athenaeum Library for similar help 

 in Liverpool, 



