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of the south-west corner of Kerapsey church-yard, where it bowed 

 round into such corner. Judging from a measure lately made 

 by footsteps, this vallum was about 200 yards long. 



The south vallum appears to have run along the south side of the 

 chuich-yard, and was about 90 yards long. 



The east vallum ran along the east side of the church-yard, and 

 other property, and through the garden of Gore Cottage into the 

 orchard behind, and was about 200 yards long. 



The north vallum ran from the above-mentioned orchard to the 

 north-west corner of the garden of the Parsonage Farm-house (from 

 whence we set out), and was 180 yards long, or thereabouts. The 

 rounded corner, and such other part of it as lies in Gore Cottage or- 

 chard and garden, is still veiy perfect, and measures 26 yards across; 

 but as it is a mound of gravel, I fear it will ere long share the fate 

 of the rest of this northern vallum,which within these few years has 

 been levelled by the parochial authorities for road materials.* 



The Roman coin which I referred to in my previous paper, as 

 having been found in the gravel-bed at Kempsey, is since ascer- 

 tained to be one of Nero ; and the previously undeciphered one, 

 found at Powick, is a Claudius Gothicus. Some of those found 

 in Britannia-square, Worcester, in the foundation of the supposed 

 circular tower or fort, are of Decentius, Magnentius, and Claudius 

 Gothicus. The others discovered there are principally of the Con- 

 stantine family as before described.t It is worthy of remark, that the 

 above foundation was of new red sandstone, like that in the quarries 

 at Ombersley or Holt, and such stone was most probably brought 

 by the Romans down the river from one or other of those places : 

 in corroboration of this I lately received a letter from Dr. Prattin- 

 ton of Bewdley, wherein he says that, some years ago, he found 

 several specimens of Roman pottery of the finest sort in the parish 

 of Ombersley, and had the sanction of his late excellent friend, the 

 discoverer of the extensive villa at I\orth Leigh, in Oxfordshire, as 

 to the probability, if not certainty, of there having been a Roman 

 residence in the neighbourhood. 



• Since I wrote the above, the rounded corner which lies in the above 

 garden has been partly, and will soon be completely, demolished. 



f Britannia-square lies upon the ridge of ground, out of floods way, exact- 

 ly opposite Cinder Point, on the east bank of the Severn, where a Roman 

 foot-blast for smelting iron-ore is supposed to have been situated, as described 

 in my former paper, under the head Yarranton. Although the finding of 

 Roman coins in a particular locality is not sufficient proof of its having been 

 a Roman station, yet when we consider all the corroborative facts in the 

 above case, the evidence appears to amount almost to a demonstration. 



