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spicuous remains of antiquity are well known, almost every district 
contains some which are hardly known beyond the immediate 
vicinity, but are not less worthy of study.* Let me take as an 
illustration some of the objects of antiquarian interest within a 
moderate walk of Kirkby Lonsdale, the home in which I spent 
twenty-six years. You will see that they may be used to illustrate 
almost every part of the history of Britain, and yet the district was 
not exceptionally rich in such objects. Of the earliest periods of 
British history, before the Romans came to this country, there are 
in that immediate neighbourhood few certain remains. There is 
a stone circle on Casterton Fell, which might perhaps be found, 
on careful investigation with the spade, to be sepulchral. There 
is what may possibly be a circular hill fort near Leck, and some 
barrows have been opened without much result. 
When, however, we come to the Roman period we find many 
important remains of that great people. The ‘Maiden Way” ran 
up the valley of the Lune, in one place on a high causeway over 
marshy ground ; and, it would be very desirable to trace it out in 
detail throughout its course. A large and important camp was 
situated at Overburrow, two miles from Kirkby Lonsdale: parts of 
the rampart may still be seen, and some capitals of pillars and 
other sculptured stones are preserved. I have in my possession a 
stone mortar, said to come from the camp, but it is too bulky to 
_ bring here to-day. 
The Romans left Britain, but the native tribes retained some of 
the Roman civilization, and probably some intermixture of Roman 
blood. Have we any relics of that period? Yes; two miles from 
Kirkby Lonsdale, there are remains of a British settlement, traces 
of huts and cattle-pens surrounded by an earthwork. And the 
iron implement, of which this is a drawing, which we found in 
excavating the remains of a circular hut, fixes the date. This is 
one of a very distinctive class of implements, called “hipposandals,’» 
about the use of which archeologists are not altogether agreed, 
*T should like to call the attention of any who have not seen it, to a most 
interesting work, Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, by the Rev. J. C, 
Atkinson, published by Macmillan. 
