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‘the surface ; and, in the next, or Lower Broad 
“‘ Hope, by the long ridge above it. The seam 
“of the gravel is a proof of the road, as the 
“ground is all naturally clay.” Hist. Man., 
Book I., chap. 4, sec. ili., page 155. The ridge 
of the Road, in the Lower Broad Hope, has dis- 
appeared. 
The Roman Road crosses the Gildas Brook, 
om the northwest side of Brook House Field. 
Mr. Whitaker says, that “The Road here 
‘leaving the Hope Hall Estate, and entering the 
“‘ Heath Fields, the gravel is easily discovered by 
“the spade, in the first of them, as it crosses the 
“corner of it. And, in the second, the ridge 
“appears again, but much greater, and very large, 
“extending ten or twelve yards in width, and 
“having a fall on either side. Passing through 
*‘an angle of the third, the elevation continues 
“still evident, but reduced, in the fourth and 
“fifth : rises to a very considerable height, in 
“the sixth; and retains it in Heath Lane, and 
“the field beyond it. In the last, it appears 
“equally green and dry, for twelve or thirteen 
“yards in width, and is skirted by a border of 
“rushes, in the wet ground of either side. But, 
