“Of Atlas mount let poets antique sing,
Whose summit bare supports the bending sky.
Of Roseberry’s rude rock I deign to write...”
Thomas Pearson 1780
Quoted in Stephen J Sherlocks excellent paper, The Archaeology of Roseberry Topping
Moorland Monuments
Studies in the archaeology of North-East Yorkshire in honour of Raymond Hayes and Don Spratt
CBA Research Report 101
1995