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Vfl. A Letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby^ ta 
£>r. Martin Lifter, ColLMed.Lond. ScS.K S. 
giving an Account of a Roman Fottery^ near 
Leeds in Yorkfliire. 
I Had once the Happinefs in my Father's time to fee 
you here, and take very kindly your honourable 
mention of him in your curious Letter Publilhed in the 
Philofophkal Collet. 4. The Altar is yet with me, 
witha confiderabie addition of other Curiofuies, relating 
as well to Antiquitys as natural Rarities^ to which (if I 
miframember not) you was a Benefaftor, in beftowing 
fome valuable fears of a Coraline Urn, and of a Jet 
Ring, with ibme Indian Fruit, ^c, my natural Pro- 
penfion to fuch things fteals away more time then I 
can well afford, and makes me alfo troublelbme to fuch 
generous tempers, as I find as well willing as able to aft 
fift me ; and therefore I prefume this once to defire 
your thoughts concerning a Roman Votary that I have 
lately difcovered in my Survey of this Parifli. 'Tis up- 
on Blackmore^ about two Miles from LeeJes ( the old 
Leogeolium) the Name Hamafier rig gave me the firft 
occafion to hope for fome Roman Ruines there; but 
infteadof the Remains of a regular Camp or Fortifica- 
tion, I was furprifed to find feveral Rounds, or circular 
Heaps of Rubbifti, abundantly too fmall for any Mili- 
tary ufe J one by the Wheel was Sixteen Perches round, 
another in walking ^venty fix Paces, and thefe I take 
to be Ruines of fome of the very Furnaces 5 'tis a San- 
dy Ground, yet plenty of Clay at no great diftance ; 
theCountrey People tell me of heaps of Stagg and Cin- 
ders, but I had not the hap to meet with any, the place 
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