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road to Radcliffe. Beyond this point, the line of 
the Roman road again falls in with the modern 
road, near the Dales—passes through the planta- 
tion at the Dales, thence into the fields northward, 
where the elevation is distinctly traceable to the 
termination of an old lane from Goat’s Gate, 
where it descends the steep banks of the Irwell, 
and falls, with undeviating accuracy, into the line 
of the Roman road, as traced out and described 
in the former paper on this subject. 
In addition to the information gathered up dur- 
ing my former investigations of the line of the 
road from the Irwell to the Bull’s Head Inn near 
Quarlton, may be mentioned what was communi- 
cated by the farmer at Spen Moor. He told two 
gentlemen and myself when examining the line 
for the Ordnance Survey, now carrying on within 
this County, that in draining, he frequently had 
to cut through the substratum of the road. When 
asked to show us in what direction the line of the 
road ran, he led us to a field below the farm 
house, where he pointed out to us across the 
field where this gravelly substratum was found, the 
very line of the road ; told us moreover, that the 
hard gravelly bed was about seven or eight yards 
broad, about half-a-yard thick, and about a foot be- 
