holmes: pre-historic remains of rombalds moor. 
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the superstition or worship in the past. These are circles and pillars, 
and objects of stone, unworked or figured, naturally or artificially- 
placed. To these may be added mounds of earth of considerable 
size, which though probably at first simple grass mounds, becoming 
famous, were increased and made sacred to religion, and then utilised 
as places for meetings, ceremonies, and for legal transactions. Objects 
and methods originally superstitious might be made available for 
other purposes, and so cannot well be classed under any specific defini- 
tion. 
This very brief and imperfect classification of objects left by 
people of and from the most remote antiquity, will not find actual 
illustration or evidences in any one place or locality. They may be 
found wherever men have existed, but, wherever found, they are the 
evidence of both the existence and the condition of the people living, 
and whatever be the diversity of circumstances they show certain 
traits of humanity common to the whole. We may thus infer that 
different objects indicating ideas or habits at one place will have 
a similar significance at another, however distant in place or time. 
Rombalds Moor itself is an elevated track of wild moorland, 
which formerly must have been miles larger all ways. The district 
of our especial investigation is bounded by a line north up the Aire 
Valley from Calverley Station to ^lenstone, and so on to the Wharfe, 
say about 250 feet above sea-level, and by another line rising from 
the Wharfe to Addingham, 1000 feet; and from Addingham to the 
Aire near Keighley, falling to 300 feet. This moorland, bounded by 
the Wharfe north and by the Aire south, includes a span of between 
6 to 7 miles east and west, and 4 to 5 miles north to south. The 
extreme height is 1,322 feet, rounding from river to river, rising 
highest about mid-way between north and south, at White Crag, and 
falling from Addingham 1000, to 300 feet west to east, at Calverley 
Station. The millstone grit rises in five or six terraces from the Wharfe 
to the top, which on the south side is much cultivated, having Sils- 
den, Marton, Hawksworth, and Baildon, all manufacturing villages, at 
the lower parts. On the north, bleak and bare, the terraces are much 
more evident, and are only cultivated from the Wharfe for four or six 
hundred yards up the sides, leaving seven to nine hundred yards bare 
