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| Beacon | Beacon | Revd E.C. Ogle | on the summit | An artificial Mound of a | ||
| Beacon | Mr Crisp | of Beacon Hill | Conical form it is composed | |||
| Beacon | Mr Charlton | of Gravel, & has been opened | ||||
| but nothing of importance found | ||||||
| the Revd E.C. Ogle told me that |
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| probable origin was "during the | ||||||
| wars of the Commonwealth, & that | ||||||
| in all likelihood it served the | ||||||
| purpose of a Beacon to warn the | ||||||
| local inhabitants of the appearance | ||||||
| of any armed party whether | ||||||
| Royalist or Puritan" | ||||||
| John Stewart Sapper RE |
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Transcribed by JMCN and SW
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