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well as its finally quartering in a city largely dependent on 

 Gloucester for support in case of any formidahle attach. 



As farther evidence of the early period of the wall, we have 

 the close approximation to the Polybian plan of castrametation, 

 which is quite lost in the later Roman cities of Britain ; and 

 the fact that the method of building was the one most in vogue 

 in the time of Vitktivitjs, which in the decline of the Empire 

 ceased to be followed. 



It is surprising to note, during the palmier days of Eome, 

 with what persistence they kept to certain standard measure- 

 ments. Earlier in this paper I have mentioned that the ditch 

 of Uriconium was 100 (Roman) feet in width; and the one at 

 Gloucester, as nearly as I can judge without actually proving it, 

 was about the same. I have just lighted on a statement that 

 the fosse of Rome itself, as made by Servitts Tullitjs, was 100 

 feet wide by 30 in depth. The city of Rome, in its earliest 

 form, " Boma Quadrata," which stood on the Palatine Hill, 

 seems to have served as the model for garrison cities in the most 

 distant parts of the Empire, down till the second century. It 

 was a square, about the size of the Roman city of Gloucester. 



The radius of the curve of the wall at the corner of Green 

 Dragon Lane is 60 feet. This at once gives us the width of the 

 roadway round the camp inside — 60 feet. I find the roadway 

 round TJley Bury camp to be also 60 feet wide. These coinci- 

 dences are not accidental, but the result of a definite space 

 being allowed for the movement of a given number of men. 



Uley Bury must have been used before any walled city was 

 built here ; no doubt at the first coming of the Romans on to 

 the Cotteswold Hills. The second legion was the principal 

 one concerned in this invasion; but the form of a "curtain" 

 covering an entrance in the northern side of Uley Bury, is one 

 which I only find matched by those of the camp-gates of the 

 ninth legion, in Scotland, as figured by General Roy. I suspect 



INSIDE OF CAMP. 



