ancient Terraffed Works. 429, 
fhall not undertake to enquire. It is certain, 
that in the route from the Bay of Morecamb 
to Kendal, various traces of ancient entrench- 
ments are vifible; but Dr. Stukely, by a ftroke 
of his lively pen, has turned thofe fcarce 
difcernible mounds into fplendid cities. A- 
part from this fancy of multiplying Palmyras 
in the defart, Dr. Stukeley was a moft acdute 
antiquarian, and an excellent judge of field- 
works in particular. It is therefore dangerous 
to queftion his authority, on this point. 
Suppofing, then, Agricola to have advanced, 
in his firft campaign, by the pafs of Brederdale, 
let us try how far the feries of field-works 
defcribed, will affift us in recovering a fragment 
of his hiftery. The flight terrace-work, at the 
entrance of the defile from Kendal, fhews that 
fome attempt was made to refift the invading 
army there. The Romans had therefore. en- 
camped, as the fquare entrenchment indicates, 
hard by the pafs, till the enemy retreated, or 
was diflodged. When the invaders reached the 
bottom of the defile, their camp would probably 
be ftrongly entrenched, as the poft of Orton 
Scarr, commanding all the interjacent country, 
would then appear very formidable. Whether 
the Caftella were then thrown up, to protect 
the watering and reconnoitring parties, or whe- 
ther thefe were fubfequent works, for the fecu- 
rity of the ftation, it is impoffible to determine. 
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