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== Allusion ==
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{{quote|<keyword><span class="text-allcaps">Robin Hood's Seat</span></keyword>. — "At the top of Trench Wood, on entering the Glen, there is a large stone with a bowl-shaped cavity, called from time immemorial '<keyword>Robin Hood's Seat</keyword>.' This designation is, of course, purely mythical, many such curious stones and other remarkable objects in our part of the country being associated in some fanciful way or other with this famous mediaeval outlaw."<sup>2</sup>

The cavity in the stone is in my opinion of natural origin and has no traces of human handiwork. The hollow is, I think, a "pot-hole," worn by the action of pebbles in the bed of a river where a circular motion is imparted to the water. Such holes exist in considerable numbers in the bed of the Wharfe near the Strid, and are common in most swiftly-flowing rivers where the bed is rocky. This piece of stone must, if I am right, have been at the bottom of a river in some very remote geological epoch. The whole slope of the hill about this spot is strewn with masses of rock which have rolled down from a higher level; this particular mass got broken in the process, leaving about three-quarters [p. 114:] of the basin intact, which is two feet in diameter and one foot 9 inches deep.<ref>{{:Baildon, William Paley 1912a}}, vol. I, pp. 113-14.</ref>}}</onlyinclude>

== Source notes ==
Baildon's note 2 refers to: {{:Gray, Johnnie 1891a}}, p. 150. For this see [[1891 - Gray, Johnnie - Through Airedale from Goole to Malham (2)]].

== Lists ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 315-19.
* Outside scope of {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.

== Editions ==
* {{:Baildon, William Paley 1912a}}; see vol. I, pp. 113-14.

== Background ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paley_Baildon Wikipedia: William Paley Baildon.]

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