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Gentleman's Magazine 1824 part 1 p.5
[com]mon, which was perfect in his day, and does not appear to have traced its extent northward through the old inclosed land. That so extensive a space as is here occupied should have any reference to a place of worship, seems hardly probable. That it was to commemorate some event, and probably a victory, seems more likely, and the name of Skellaw, i.e. the Hill of Skulls, strengthens the conjecture.
GEORGE HALL.
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