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A ROMAN RECREATION GROUND: 
THE CAMPUS MARTIUS OF GLANOVENTA. 
By THE REv J. I. CUMMINS, O.S.B. 
(Read at Maryport.) 
To one who cares to muse upon the changing pageant of the 
world’s history, and to call up the story of bygone days, the scanty 
remains of our Roman station are full of interest. Let such a one 
take his stand on the mounds by the north-east gate of the Camp, 
- the Preetorian gate of Glanoventa. ‘There he will see still standing 
the lintels of doors that once kept out the Picts and Scots, the ruts 
made by chariot wheels in the pavement, courses of stones as they 
were laid in the wall seventeen hundred years ago and never since 
disturbed ; and all around the shapeless mounds that hide the 
ruins of the streets and dwellings of the Station. How eloquently 
those stones, still speak of the might and the broad dominion of 
the empire that carved such lasting traces even on the hills of 
far-off Britain! But one who looks carefully may notice another 
and more familiar mark. Deeply stamped on those historic stones 
is the seal of the nation that has succeeded to the world-wide sway 
of Rome. ‘The Empire of Great Britain, as though to claim the 
heritage of universal dominion, has put its mark—the fingers of an 
outstretched hand—upon these old ruins ; and the broad arrow of 
the government ot Victoria is stamped upon the gate posts of the 
camp of Agricola. 
Another striking coincidence in this connection has often been - 
noticed. From the days of Tacitus people have remarked how 
