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| Mote Hills | Mote Hills | Revd. John Baillie MA | About 10 chains N E. | Two remarkable mounds of earth of artificial | ||
| Mote Hills | Hodgsons History of Northumberland | of Elsdon Church | formation detached from each other by a deep ditch | |||
| Mote Hills | Whites directory | and appears to have been a work of the highest | ||||
| antiquity "That it was not made by the Romans | ||||||
| is presumable from its circular form and it being | ||||||
| very unlike the Military works of that people | ||||||
| The found it formed to their hands and occupied it | ||||||
| for some occasional purpose. The name Mote Hills | ||||||
| is descriptive of its form or the use to which it was | ||||||
| applied in the Saxon or later ages the |
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| but Mr. Hodgson will not take it upon himself | ||||||
| to decide why the name Mote Hills is applied | ||||||
| to these ancient objects | ||||||
| Whiskershield Burn | See Name Book of Sheet 52/15 | |||||
| Edw. Gillespie Royal Engineers |
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