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XXI. Some Account of the Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire. In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary. By Hayman Rooke, Esq.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The success I met with in discovering the Druidical monuments in Derbyshire (which I had the honour to lay before the Society), induced me to make an excursion into Yorkshire, to examine some curious groups of rocks, seven miles from Ripley, on the road to Pateley Bridge, called Brimham rocks. They are indeed a most wonderful assemblage, scattered about the moor in groupes, which all together occupy a space of above forty acres. The extraordinary position of these rocks in a variety of directions must have been occasioned by some violent convulsion of nature; but at the same time it is evident, that art has not been wanting to make their situations still more wonderful.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1787

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page 209 note [a] See vol. VII. p. 175.

page 209 note [b] Analysis of Ant. Mythology, vol. III. p. 53.

page 210 note [c] Analysis of Ant. Mythol., vol. III. p. 532.

page 212 note [d] Antiquities of Cornwall, p. 172.

page 213 note [e] Itinerar. Cambr. lib. ii. c. 1.

page 213 note [f] Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall, p. 170.

page 214 note [g] Toland, vol. I. 103.

page 215 note [h] Archaeologia, vol. VI. p. 114.

page 216 note [i] Observations on Popular Antiquities, chap. xxvii. p. 297.

page 216 note [k] Toland, vol. I. p. 73.

page 216 note [l] Borlase, Antiquities of Cornwall, p. 147.