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Not only is this probable, but there are many signs that it 

 was a populous place in Roman and Romano-British times. 

 These have been found notably on the site of the Priory and 

 Priory grounds, tear bottles, fragments of early pottery, 

 tweezers, a rude columbarium formed in the rock, containing 

 burnt ashes, fragments of bones, and urns formed of grey 

 clay, in various states of preservation. Skeletons have been 

 found evidently of an early type, both in the Priory 

 grounds, and in the meadows beneath Warwick Castle. 

 Stukeley informs us, jthat on the south side of the river to 

 the east he found the signs of a Roman camp, and on the 

 spot distinguished by a quadrangular mark on Speed's map, 

 near the words "St. Helens," and there are some traces of a 

 quadrangular earth work yet visible in the garden of 

 Captain Fosbery, but whether it is the camp observed by 

 Stukeley is doubtful. If there were the remains of a Roman 

 camp in the position indicated, it would point to a siege of 

 the earlier British earthworks on the northern side of the 

 ford over the Avon adjoining the donjon or mound of the 

 present Castle. If Warwick was ever a Roman garrison, 

 their Campus Martins would be probably placed on the slope 

 of the Priory, and not on the edge of the precipitous rock 

 on which the present Castle is built. This may be termed 

 "guess work," but it has much to recommend it. The 

 mound at Warwick, after all its changes, is but little larger 

 than the one at Brinklow, being 240ft. wide at the base and 

 60ft. across the summit. The mound at Brinklow is 

 200ft.; Seckingfon, 150ft. There is a similar mound at 

 Leicester, within the line of both Roman and Norman 

 fortifications. There are Mounds at Tamworth, at Windsor, 

 at Oxford, at Tickhill, at Totness, and a score of other places, 

 bearing a keep on the summit ; but the Donjon, or Dane 



