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The Chairman invited remarks upon the topic which had 
been so learnedly and lucidly treated. 
Mr. Henry Briggs, of "Wakefield, referred to the discovery 
of some blocks of timber in digging near a hill known as the 
Fairies' Hill, about two miles from Castleford. It was known 
that there had been a Roman encampment at Castleford, and 
it was his opinion this hill had been an outlook. The hill 
had formerly been surrounded by a moat, and in fact a man 
of eighty years of age, now dead, had told him that he 
recollected the moat being filled up. The blocks of timber 
he had mentioned might have been used in letting the water 
in and out of the moat. He hoped that this hill, as well as 
another called Law Hill, near Normanton, would be examined, 
to see whether they contained barrows or not. 
Mr. Barber said he had had his attention drawn to certain 
British remains which existed, to a much larger extent than 
people would at first sight imagine, on Baildon Moor. From 
what he had read, he believed the Baildon Moor remains 
would be found to give examples of almost every class of 
remains that Mr. Greenwell had referred to. They were the 
so-called Druidical circles ; there were certainly certain 
entrenchments, there were barrows, and there were cairns. 
There were also a large number of ridges, which might very 
possibly be terraces on which corn had grown. He inquired 
whether Mr. Greenwell had, in his researches, found the 
remains of which he had spoken in close proximity to the 
villages of which mention had been made, and whether he 
could establish a sort of identity between the parties who 
dwelt in the dwellings and those who were interred in the 
barrows ? This, he observed, would be a most interesting 
point at Baildon, for there we were in close connection with 
Roman remains — the Roman Olicana being at Hkley ; and he 
could not but think marks of a transitional character might 
be met with there by careful exploration, and that a most 
