An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . kmen, employed to stop the encroachments of the Ribble, almost oppositeto the parish-church of Ribchester, at the depth of about a yard beneath the present surface, met with the foundationof two parallel walls, lying nearly North and South, at the distance of about tsventy-four yards from each other, andvery strongly cemented. The South side appears to have been carried away by the river; that on the North remainedfor the pr
An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell . kmen, employed to stop the encroachments of the Ribble, almost oppositeto the parish-church of Ribchester, at the depth of about a yard beneath the present surface, met with the foundationof two parallel walls, lying nearly North and South, at the distance of about tsventy-four yards from each other, andvery strongly cemented. The South side appears to have been carried away by the river; that on the North remainedfor the present unexplored. Among the rubbish were five human scuUs, and a corresponding quantity of other bones, allof which had been disturbed before. At the same time and place was discovered a very curious stylus, or bodkin, of hardyellow stone. Within the walls was an ordinary flagged floor: and near the South end lay the remains of a large flatstone, which the workmen inad\erteutly broke into many pieces before they discovered that the lower surface containedan inscription. The fragments being carefully collected and put togelhei,, exhibit the following appearance :—.
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