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| Humbleton Hill | Humbleton Hill | Mr Robt Brown | On Sheet | A rather large and high hill west of, and adjoining | ||
| Homildon Hill | Mr James Short | Humbleton Village. There are remains of what seems | ||||
| Humbleton Heugh | Directory | to have been a wall of defence near the topmost brow | ||||
| of the Hill and another much stronger wall or Bank | ||||||
| immediately on the top, tradition points out this hill | ||||||
| as the celebrated Homildon Hill mentioned in | ||||||
| White’s Directory as having "a circular intrenchment, | ||||||
| with a large cairn of stone," and as being "cut into | ||||||
| a number terraces 30 feet deep" – Had the terraces ever | ||||||
| been cut, even 2 feet deep, they would have remained | ||||||
| till the end of time, as the hill is almost a solid | ||||||
| rock with scarcely the covering of a Sod. The |
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| "intrenchment" consists solely of Boulders gathered | ||||||
| apparently from the surface of the hill- | ||||||
| No cuttings in the shape of terraces can be | ||||||
| traced on any part of the Hill. | ||||||
| Tradition also gives this, as the | ||||||
| hill on which Earl Douglas was posted | ||||||
| on Holyrood Day 1402, when intercepted by Earl | ||||||
| Percy, "and though advantageously posted | ||||||
| Robt Young Corporal Royal Engineers |
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