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the ends for the road in and out. It is now perhaps 500 
feet long and nearly as wide, but part was taken into an 
adjoining field some years ago. There are many scores of 
pits more or less accurately rounded, varying from 8 or 9 to 
18 or 20 feet in diameter, and from 3 to 6 feet deep, having 
a space through the midst for the road. The village stands 
above the ground on all sides, so that no water could drain 
in, and on the south-west boundary and along part of the 
north-eastern face run banks apparently in part artificial, 
and outside the first a broad level as if made for a road or 
other purpose. The pits are not in rows but lie like irregular 
honey-comb cells separated by ridges sufficiently wide for a 
man to pass, and in some are signs of rough walling. It is 
remarkable that this old home should have remained thus im- 
disturbed for so many generations — say 2,000 years. IS'ative 
oak and ash trees of considerable size grow on the place, 
some rooted into the foundations of the huts." Also p. 234 : 
" Taking note of land-marks I struck over the moors for the 
ancient British settlement lying a mile north of the beacon 
hill on a ridge between two feeders of the Staithes beck. 
The plan of this village differs much from that of the settle- 
ment at Egton grange. There the huts stand almost close 
together, and not in regular order; here -the pits are in 
parallel lines, two rows being enclosed within banks of earth. 
The pairs of rows are three in number, each containing thirty 
or more houses, or about fifteen in a row. The pits measure 
about 10 feet in diameter, and lie from 15 to 18 feet apart. 
The passage or street between the lines is about 24 feet wide, 
and the enclosiug ridges He almost close to the outside of 
the rows." 
But you wiU say, how came these pits to have been 
so long undiscovered ? My attention was caught some time 
since, as I passed in the distance, by a number of singular 
hollows on the hill-side, visible to the right on the road from 
