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well chosen were the sites of Agricola’s encampments. One of 
them was this great Watch Camp on the Solway, and a curious 
confirmation of the judgment of his biographer was afforded a few 
years ago when this very site was chosen as a station for coast- 
guards and a battery for our naval reserve. The same causes 
produce the same results, similar needs require similar remedies. 
When modern England therefore wants a station for the protection 
of the Solway, she chooses the identical spot on our historic hill 
which Agricola selected and Hadrian approved for the same 
purpose eighteen hundred years ago. 
I would now draw attention to another curious coincidence ofa like 
kind, There is good reason to believe that the recreation ground 
of modern Maryport is identical with the playground of ancient 
Glanoventa. ,A few months back the Trustees, with commendable 
public spirit, decided to provide a playground for “the mercurial 
youth” of the town ; and after casting about for a suitable site they 
selected a vacant field near the hill top. I believe that they have 
unconsciously chosen the very spot that was used for a similar 
purpose sixteen and seventeen centuries ago; and that the same 
sense of the fitness of things, the same instinct which led the 
Admiralty to choose the Roman camp for their coastguard station 
has guided the Trustees to adopt as our children’s playground the 
Campus Martius of Glanoventa. 
No one who carefully examines the new recreation field can fail 
to notice two features in its conformation. First, and very con- 
spicuous, is the mound or circular elevation which rises towards 
the sea-face of the field, and has recently been furnished with 
some rustic seats. Second, not so noticeable at first sight, but 
easily recognised when pointed out, is a remarkable piece of 
perfectly level ground lying at the foot of this mound. The 
mound, which is certainly artificial, is popularly known as “ Pud- 
ding Pie Hill,” a name adopted by the Ordnance Survey but 
probably not older than the last century. It was long thought to 
be an ancient tumulus, or grave of some forgotten chieftain ; 
and was at one time known as ‘The King’s Burying Place.” It 
certainly bears a striking resemblance to a tumulus; and if 
