314 HOLMES: PRE-illSTORIC REMAINS OF ROMBALDS MOOR. 
top of the moor, and so they placed the Ivihis at Lanshaw, or Long- 
Ridding's as best. 
One might suppose that history woald say something about the 
Lanshaw Dolvos, the enclosures for cattle, or the tracks and stand- 
ing stone guide posts upon the moor. But it is silent, even upon 
the many lime-kilns of Lanshaw. Old men have heard older tell 
of big trees having been fetched from the bog there, when the kilns 
were wholly unknown. So the legend of the witches dropping their 
aprons full of stones forming the big and little Barrows will take us 
very far back in historic time, but of their real origin we have legend. 
The period is too far remote. So of the gi'aves of Baildon, (the hill 
of Baal), the fuller circles of Rombalds Moor, and the cup and ring 
or chart incised rocks, we have neither whisper nor word, legend, 
story nor history. That they exist now is certain, and like the dry 
bones of Ezekiel's vision, it is certain that bone once knit to bone, 
and sinew to sinew, in the relations of ancient life. By the 
facts of savage life still existing we may dimly see in the 
grey dawn of times most remote that a tribe, probably similar to the 
Fins and Laps now, once lived upon the fringe of retreating glaciers 
on Rombalds Moor. We still find traces of the flint flakes, with 
which they scraped the bones of animals they had trapped on the 
hill or killed in the chase with their flint arrows, or found floating 
in the then extensive lochs. We can realise with a change of clime 
how they formed their huts, and then bred cattle. We can surmise of 
how they began to dream of the infinite, raise pillars to their gods, 
and dig graves for their dead. We can see how they interred their 
loved ones, placed the ashes of their dead in costly urns, and 
covered over their chiefs and heroes with earth or stones, and then 
circled them round to preserve their remains. 
We can realise how they carved symbols upon their monuments, 
and figured what they thought or felt upon the rocks they held to be 
sacred. We can reasonably suppose how they gi'ew into families, 
clans and tribes, associated with friends, and quarrelled with foes, and 
fought for wives, slaves, territory, or their gods. We can see how 
they might agree upon tribal boundaries, and construct common 
roads for transit or travel ; and then, as they thought, fixed them for 
