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| Blakeley Hill | Blakeley Hill | Mr. Hindmarsh | North side of | A slight eminence surmounted by a | ||
| Blakeley Hill | Mr. Dobson | Blakeley Plantation | Trig. point (this name no doubt is a | |||
| Blakeley Hill | Mr. Bell | corruption of Blake Law but it was | ||||
| impossible to obtain Authorities for this | ||||||
| mode of spelling.) | ||||||
| Harlowhill East | Harlowhill East TP | Mr. Hindmarsh | on the turnpike | A gatehouse & gate for the collection of | ||
| (TP) | Harlowhill East TP | Mr. Dobson | Road | tolls, so called to distinguish it from | ||
| Harlowhill East TP | Mr. Bell | Harlowhill West, TP | ||||
| ROMAN CISTERN | Roman Cistern | Mr. Hindmarsh | West of & adjoining | A Cavity hewn out of the solid rock | ||
| Roman Cistern | Mr. Dobson | to Rudchester | by the ancient Romans. In Bruce the | |||
| Roman Cistern | Mr. Bell | following description of this object is given | ||||
| Coffin | Mr MacLauchlan’s Map of the Roman Wall | "On the Brow of the hill west of the station | ||||
| Cistern | White’s Directory Vol: II P. 137 | there is still to be seen hewn out of a solid rock | ||||
| what Wallis calls a Coffin it has more the | ||||||
| appearance of a cistern, it is 12 feet long 4 ft | ||||||
| broad & 2 ft deep, & has a hole close to the | ||||||
| bottom at one end. When discovered it had a | ||||||
| partition of masonry across it |
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| from one end and contained many decayed bones" | ||||||
| John Stewart LCorp RE |
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