Two Spades, Three Pots of Gold

I have passed this gate a few times on my country lane wanderings. Aerial maps shows it to be an entrance to the walled kitchen garden that must have belonged to Upsall Castle which burnt down in 1918. Before that the castle had an interesting history. 

The stone inscription intrigued me. Folklore tells of a man who lived in the village of Upsall having recurring dreams to go down to London Bridge to find his fortune. He walked the 240 miles. 

After a few days waiting on the bridge he was about to give up when a stranger asked what he was doing waiting on the bridge for so many days. He explained his dreams. The stranger said he had been having dreams about finding gold buried in a village called Upsall in Yorkshire describing a tree it was under. Had be heard of the village? He didn't let on he did but made his way back home.

He found the tree and dug up a pot of gold, kept the gold and the pot sat in the local pub, no one understood the strange writing on the lid. One day a stranger past through and saw the pot and read out the words:  ‘Look lower, where this stood is another twice as good’

Needless to say the local dug again and found another pot of gold. Just for luck he continued to dig and found the 3rd. Maybe this is what paid for one of the many rebuilds of the castle over the centuries...