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FIG. 1. THE BRITISH SETTLEMENT ON DANBY NORTH MOOR 
FROM THE 25-INCH ORDNANCE MAP. 
circle and then continues its rectilinear course. But the enclosure 
of the pit in question is completed by the addition of an interior 
semicircular wall. This interrupts the regularity of the ' street ' 
in this case. In each of the other groups the ' street ' is perfectly 
straight and even. The ends of the rows or so-called * streets ' 
are open in every case ; although in one instance the two pits 
at the end are placed nearer each other than the remaining 
ones, so as to contract the entrance to the interior. If all were 
placed end to end, the total length would be from 1,200 to 1,300 
feet." 
Thirty years later. Canon Atkinson, the writer of the pre^dous 
article — after having, it may be supposed, obtained new facts and 
further information on the subject — like a true philosopher, changes 
his views, as in his Fo^rty Years in a Mom'land Parish^ published 
in 1891, he abandons altogether the pit-dwelling theory, and assigns 
almost every group of pits to mining operations, and at p. 175, 
in specially referring to the pits now under discussion, says :— 
