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Sheet 87 Plan 12 Trace 4 Parish of Newburn

List of Names as written on the Plan	Various modes of Spelling the same Names	Authority for those modes of Spelling	Situation	Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest
Dewley Hill	Dewley Hill	Mr Glover	17 Chains west of	This evidently is an artificial Hil[l]
(Tumulus)	Dewley Hill	Mr Headley	Tommy Pit	the shape is exactly that of a larg[e]
	Dewley Hill	Mr Jefferson		Basin or Bowl turned upside do[wn]
	Dewley Hill	Horsley’s Hist. of Roman Antiquities		probably it is a British Barro[w]
	Dewley Hill	Mackenzie’s History		or Tumulus; and by some is supposed
				to contain the ashes of some of the ear[ly]
		"The tumuli named Dewly law was		British Kings, his Grace the Duke of
		"highly curious, and appeared like the ruins		Northumberland has in contemplation
		"of a quarry." Mackenzie’s History		the idea of opening it which may clear
				up the mystery ~~respecting it~~,locall[y]
				this name is pronounced Deafley
				Hill, Horsley mentions it as a very
				remarkable Tumulus
			It is best known as Dewley Hill

Bogs	Bogs	Mr Glover	14 Chains East	A number of fields covered
	Bogs	Mr Headley	of Cross Pit	with rough Marshy Grass
	Bogs	Mr Jefferson

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Transcribed by PF and PT