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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Agreeable to my promise, I send you drawings of the Lancashire remains I mentioned to you some time ago, with a short account taken from my minutes.
In the beginning of July 1785, being upon an excursion into Lancashire, I was led to view the British remains in the parish of Warton, about eight miles from Lancaster; my curiosity being greatly excited by the accounts given thereof in conversation with Robert Gibson, Esq, who for some months in the summer makes Yelling the place of his residence, on account of the copper-works he is projecting there.
page 217 note [a] At the distance of about a mile to the northward of the last mentioned rocking stone, on the southern inclination of a hill, are various large masses of stone, placed in an angular figure; but as no certainty could be derived from inspection, or any tradition or name obtained from the inhabitants to lead to probable conjecture, we mull leave them in silence; though their very singular appearance assures us they were artificially placed in that figure, on some notorious occasion. In another place a very large stone is seen on a basis of rock on an elevated station. This seems to have been laid open by taking down the sides of the eminence and the loose earth, till the stone was wholly discovered with the plain on which it rests. Such labour was certainly performed to leave the stone a monument of some remarkable event, or as an object of worship.
Mr. Pennant, in his Tour, passing from Kendale to Lancaster, takes no notíce of Warton, or any of the antiquities in its vicinity. West, in his Guide to the Lakes, calls the works on Warton Crag, a square encampment.