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Curiosities at Braithwell
16th August, 1827The village of Braithwell, in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, is remarkable for its intiquity.
At the lower end of the town there is now standing a nunnery, which was surrounded by a moat, inhabited by a farmer of
the name of Birks.
A little higher up there is a friar's house; and near the top of the town stands an old antiquated building, said to have been inhabited by a princess. We have been informed there is much about this house that would amuse an antiquary.
An old man of the name of Fiddler, a native of Sheffield, says he dug or ploughed up, in a field adjoining this place, a number of skeletons, whose bones laid alongside of each other, where he believed a battle must have been fought. A number of other skeletons he also found at some distance, buried in the same manner.
Source: Boston Gazette
