552. AN ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN PUBLIC WAY. 
the Brook Meadow, where the Road has sloped 
down to the Brook, near Dangerous Corner ; and, 
the hollow track of the Road is very visible, 
where it has sloped up the hill, from the brook to 
the public house, at Dangerous Corner. 
The Roman Road crosses the present Highway 
at Dangerous Corner ; and the gravel and stones 
of the Road are very visible, near the hedge, on 
the north side of the Highway. 
Old Thomas Bushel, of Moss House, near 
Amberswood Common, was told, in 1796, by 
Anthony Hodgkinson, who was then seventy 
years of age, and lived at Caer Common, that the 
gravel and stones of the Roman Road were very 
visible, in his time, in the southwest corner of the 
field, where the Road to Caer Common branches 
off from the present Highway ; and, old Anthony 
Hodgkinson said, that this old road went over 
Amberswood Common to Wigan; and that, in 
old times, it was the High-gate Road from Man- 
chester to Wigan and Preston. The name of 
Caer Common shows, that there has been a Fort 
here, on the line of the Roman Road. 
The Roman Road was found by Mr. Still, of 
