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1 mention’d Knothill to be a Roman tumulus. The 
people about Caftlefhaw have yet a tradition, that 
fotne great man belonging to the caftle was buried 
there, and have a confufed notion of a march of an 
army of Danes. 
Now as Canutus marched into Yorkshire out of 
Lancashire, it is highly probable, that he came over 
this road : and as Knott-hill gave him a full view of 
the Yorkshire moors, it was a proper place and op- 
portunity to harangue his men ; and that fpeech 
might alter the old name of the tumulus to Knot- 
hill, if it was not made for his ufe, which, I think, 
it was not. 
Several names of places on this road feem to carry 
his memory in their names. Knothill here ; Knot- 
ty-lane juft below ; Knotlanes between here and 
Manchester, very near the Roman highway; Knots - 
mills near Manchester ; and Knutsford in Chethire, 
which way he probably came, in his march from 
Staffordshire. 
N. B. I imagine Ravennas's Geography to be a 
kind of an iter ; and that before the name of Man- 
chester the name of Zerdotalia means Burgh near 
Caftleton in the Peak. For a Roman way comes 
over the moors from Burgh toward Manchester , 
another from Burgh to Buxton. There is a Roman 
camp at Burgh, a campus cejtivus about a mile di- 
stance on the top of Mam-tor, and juft below this 
camp is a lead -mine called Woden or Oden Great 
Mine, reputed the oldeft in Derbyshire, and to have 
been wrought for many ages. What analogy there 
is between this name, and the name of the Saxon 
deity Woden, I refer to be consider’d by the curious, 
and the reafon of its being now affixed to the mine. 
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