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to the probable correctness or otherwise of the suggestions :— 
(1) That the channel has been worn by the feet of “lime gals’’ 
or packhorses. (2) That it was intended to act as a drain to 
carry the water from the road. (3) That it was a track for the 
guides of the Roman Army, the groove being worn by human 
feet. (4) That it was to receive the centre wheel of a three- 
wheeled waggon or trolly. (5) That it was to receive the skidded 
wheel of a vehicle, the ruts of the other wheel being apparent 
upon the paved portion of the road. The Rev. J. 8. Doxey, who 
was one of the party, remarked that in some parts of Derbyshire 
it is the practise to tilt up a heavily-laden cart, liberating the 
forepart from the shafts, and letting the tail drag on the ground. 
He suggested that possibly in this case an adaptation of this 
primitive kind of drag had fitted the already prepared groove. 
Here we leave this much disputed question, and whether or not 
at some future time a definite conclusion is arrived at as to the 
date of the road, its past history and the object of its central line 
of stones, it must always be regarded with the greatest interest 
as a monument of human skill and industry. 
