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Title: The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Hargrove, Ely, 1741-1818
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Publisher: Knaresbrough Printed by Hargrove
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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river, for the sake of
water; and, on the skirt cf a large forest, for the conve-
niency of hunting, and pasture for their cattle. As
these inviting circumstances were more conspicuous
in some parts of the countrv than others, the princes
or chiefs made choice of these places for their resi-
dence; a number of their followers and dependants
built their huts as near them as they could, and also
erected stalls, for their cattle, within the same limits.
A town or city thus made, they fortified all round with
a ditch and rampart of earth; and, if any danger was
suspected, they blocked up all the entrances with trees,
cut down, and heaped one upon another. The remains
of a ditch and rampart, may yet braced here, which
include an area of 900 feet long, by 600 broad.

EVERY part of these ramparts would command an
extensive view of distant countrv; from whence the
inhabitants might, with great advantage, watch every
motion of an enemy, and stand prepared to repel every
hostile approach.

KNARESBROUGH. 17

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1. The north angle, near Row-gap
2. The east angle, near Pinfold-Hill.
3. The south angle, T. Cass's garden.
4. The west angle, near. Parnassus-Mount.

IN Roman times, this may probably have been.one
of those forts, formed not only for securing the road
just entering the wild region of the forest, but such a
one as they usually placed at some little distance from

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18 HISTORY OF

the larger stations, and fixed them on the most advan-
tageous scites that the places afforded, and fortified
them, not with a rampart of stone, but only with large
ditches, and placed a small garrison within them.
Several Roman coins have been found here, particu-
larly some of the Emperors Claudius and Constantine.

THE remains of a roman camp were discovered, at
Neuwied, on the banks of the Rhine, in the year 1801.
The figure was rectangular, 840 feet in length, and 631
in breadth, including a space of very near the same
dimensions as that included by the ancient ramparts
of Knaresbrough.

FOR several centuries after the departure of the

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