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Originally Posted by Longbow_Gold 
Taken from the Robin Hood Ltd site - "It is at Kirklees Priory that the supposed grave of Robin Hood can still be seen to this day."...Sadly, much of Kirklees Priory is now ruined but roughly 600 metres from the gatehouse, a medieval gravestone was found bearing a partial inscription "here lies Robard Hude..."
Willie
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According to the excellent book "The Quest For Robin Hood" by the late Jim Lees the inscription read:
Hear Underneath this leitl Stean
Laz robert earl of Huntingtun
Ne'er arcir ver as hie sa geud
And pipl kauld in robin heud
Sick utlaws az hi an iz men
Vil england niver si agen
Obiit 24 kal; Decembris 1247
It also explains that a lot of the stone disappeared during the building of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway due to a belief that a chip from it would cure toothache!
Oh, Jim Lees also points out that the gatehouse is a Tudor building.
HTH
Martin