Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
The stone I have now the honour of laying before you for your inspection, was found some years ago, on ploughing some new enclosed pasture ground, near Spurnston, in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Carlisle, in a little hillock, or raised piece of ground, about four yards one way, and three the other, a little above a foot in height, consisting entirely of earth.
page 118 note [a] Aldrovandi Museum Metall. lib. iv. p. 607, & seq.
page 118 note [b] Ibid. p. 611.
page 119 note [c] Sibbaldi Prodrom. Nat. Hist. Scot. p. ii. lib. iv. cap. 7.
page 119 note [d] Tom. v. p. ii. p. 194. & seq.
page 122 note [e] P. 778.