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cement, there being iron stanchions at the end of the corner 
stones.”* The ruts made by the chariot wheels are plainly visible. 
In the N.E. corner of the camp, an elegant bath was discovered 
in 1788. It was sixteen feet long, and was surrounded, in all 
probability, by a paved walk two feet wide. Near the centre of 
the camp is a well, having a diameter of three feet, and encased 
with masonry. Some years ago the rubbish it contained was 
cleared out, and it was found to be of great depth. Unfortunately, 
it has again become filled with rubbish, and the upper courses of 
stones displaced. 
In the field to the south of the camp is an eminence now 
called “Pudding Pie-Hill” (Pudding Pye-Hill in 1742), but more 
anciently, ‘The King’s Burying Place,” from its being the reputed 
burial place of some Celtic king or leader. So far as this latter 
idea is concerned, the result of excavations made in 1742 has not 
confirmed the tradition. It is undoubtedly artificial, but neither 
coins, urns, nor remains of any kind were found, save the bones of 
a heifer and of a colt, together with a few wood ashes. These 
were covered with a layer of turf set edgeways, and about two feet 
thick. This, in turn, was covered by several layers of red and blue 
clay, together with a kind of hard red cement, the whole being 
covered with a layer of earth. It may be worth the mention that 
the soil was cleared away to some considerable depth below where 
the remains were found. 
But around the camp, on all sides, sprang up a town ; and, if 
we may judge from the number of altars and other antiquities dis- 
covered here, it must have been a town of no mean dimensions. 
Camden, speaking in 1599 of the excavations that had then been 
made, says, “Old vaults are opened, and several altars, inscriptions, 
and statues are dug up, all of which that worthy gentleman, Mr. J, 
Senhouse (in whose fields they are dug up) keeps very religiously, 
and has placed them regularly in the walls of his house”—whilst 
Hutchinson, in 1794, gives a list of one hundred and sixteen 
articles found here ; and this list is still incomplete, the excavations 
now being carried on (1880) almost daily adding to it. Of the 
* Hutchinson’s Cumberland, Vol, IL, p. 277. 
