Some further antiquities require a brief notice. The field known by the name of _Croft-y-Spytty_, that is, _the Croft of the Hospitallers_, intimates that the Knight Hospitallers had once some establishment in the town. The field known as _Erw-Spiridion_, _the Acre of Sprudion_, or _Spiridion_, would lead to the conclusion that a church or chapel, or the ground itself, had been dedicated to the supposed Saint ycleped _Spiridion_. In a former part of this volume we have referred to _Maes-y-garreg-llwyd_, that is, _the Plain or Field of the Sacred Stone_. That plain is now divided into fields, situated on the Shrewsbury road, contiguous to Gallows-tree turnpike-gate. In the field nearest to the town there stands a STONE PILLAR, about seven feet in height, and twelve in circumference; and in the field farthest from the town, there is a similar Pillar. The late Rev. Peter Roberts, the learned antiquarian, was of opinion that all the fields at that end of the town formed a large plain when these pillars were erected, and bore the name already mentioned, of _Maes-y-garreg-llwyd_. _Llwyd_ was an epithet of the Deity, as in the expression “_Duw llwyd_,” the Sacred GOD. Between these two pillars there is still visible part of a ditch, called _the Devil’s Ditch_; and adjacent to the farthest field was another called “_Caerychain Bannog_,” or _the Field of __the bossed Oxen_. Mr. Roberts adds, “According to a tradition common in Wales, these oxen were twins, and employed by _Hu Gadarn_, a hero of antiquity, to draw a monster out of a lake, by which means he saved the country from being inundated. The popular tradition of the _Devil’s Ditch_ is, that an evil spirit formed it, in order to convey water to deluge the country, and that the ditch was in one night carried as far as Wynnstay, but that when the said evil spirit had carried it so far, the cock crew, he was obliged to desist, and it was left unfinished. Absurd, however, as these traditions may appear, they lead to the true origin, namely, that this ground and the pillars had some reference to the Deluge, and it may reasonably be presumed, that in the space included between these pillars some druidical rites were performed, in commemoration of the Deluge. The setting-up of a pillar, and consecrating it to the Deity, was a memorial of reverence to HIM in the time of the Patriarchs, as we read in Genesis that Jacob set up a stone pillar, and consecrated it, in memory of his devoting himself to the worship of the true GOD. And hence it may be concluded, that these and such Pillars were in like manner the memorials—rude indeed, but durable—of Pagan tradition.” In the _Shrewsbury Chronicle_ of March 16th, 1832, there appeared the following paragraph:—