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Earthwork of England, 1908), it was sunk in a hollow at the top of a hillock called
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The Fairies' Hill, and is in a ruinous condition, being quite unknown to most of the villagers, although persons still living (in 1908) relate that they have often trodden it on a summer's evening and knelt at the centre
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July Park, or
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St. Julian's, near Goathland, is also said to have possessed a specimen, a fact which probably accounts for the name of the place. The Horncastle maze is referred to by Dr. Stukeley, a noted eighteenth-century antiquary, as a
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Julian's Bower which is
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He also mentions the Alkborough specimen and others, coming to the conclusion that they were ancient British relics, having been constructed as places of exercise, or _cursus_, for the soldiery of those times. He observes, somewhat contemptuously, that
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Gelyan Bower is mentioned in a record of 1544,
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To nych mason for making at gelyan bower a new crose, iijs. In an old hostelry in Mercer Row, Louth, stood for some centuries a boulder of dolerite called the
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Blue Stone,