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with limestone, climbing the steep road from the Snake, 

 past the beautiful Lady Clough, then turning down 

 the famous Doctor's Grate (where the road drains were still 

 visible in 1722,'" and may yet be discernible), and so 

 across the moors — as wild now as they were then — for the 

 new fort building at Melandra. 



WOEK REMAINIXG TO BE DOXE. 



It would be easy to fill pages with suggestions as to 

 work that remains to be done. A number of indications 

 have already been given. In addition to these there are 

 the questions of the excavation of the roads approaching 

 the camp, the search for baths and a cemetery, and the 

 examination of buildings outside, traces of which are visi- 

 ble. The example set by those who have had in hand the 

 excavation of other forts would seem to suggest that the 

 first task should be a systematic stripping of the site with 

 the object of obtaining a complete plan of the fort as it 

 once existed. Such a task — owing to the nature of the 

 soil — would be one of great difiiculty and would entail 

 considerable expense. It would, however, throw some 

 interesting light on the early history of Manchester. 



Meanwhile, if members of the Classical Association have 

 been expecting that more would be accomplished as the 

 result of the first year's work, we can only point to the 

 motto given to us by Canon Hicks, the newly elected 

 President of the Association, when we began work in 

 February, 1905 : "In excavation it is the unexpected that 

 always happens." 



r. A. Brutox. 



77. Archaeologia iu. , p. 237 



