Footnotes
[267] V. Cl. Spelmanni Concil.
[OF ARTIFICIAL HILLS, MOUNTS OR BURROWS]
In many parts of England.
What they are, to what end raised, and by what Nations.
TRACT IX
My honoured Friend Mr. E. D.[268] his Quære.
‘In my last Summer’s Journey through Marshland, Holland and a great part of the Fenns, I observed divers artificial heaps of Earth of a very large magnitude, and I hear of many others which are in other parts of those Countries, some of them are at least twenty foot in direct height from the level whereon they stand. I would gladly know your opinion of them, and whether you think not that they were raised by the Romans or Saxons to cover the Bones or Ashes of some eminent persons?’