556 AN ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN PUBLIC WAY. 
Road, which runs directly over Amberswood 
Common, towards Wigan. He said, that, within 
his own recollection, the line of this Road had 
been much more visible, than it is at present ; 
and, that much of the ridge and gravel of the 
Road had been cut away. 
The line of the Roman Road is still, however, 
very visible over Amberswood Common. In 
many places it is fourteen yards in breadth: the 
ridge of the Road is broad and round: the grass 
on the line of the Road is of a paler green ; and, 
wherever this line of Road is cut into, the bright 
gravel of the Road is found in abundance. At 
the north end of Amberswood Common, near 
Common Nook, the high ridge of the Road, and 
its thick coat of gravel, are very prominent. 
There has been another Fort on the line of the 
Road, on this Common ; for Am-ber is Water-fort. 
The Road is continued, in the same straight line, 
from Amberswood Common to the west side of 
Piele, in the Scholes,* where there has been 
another Fort ; for Piele signifies a round tower. 
* Scholes is exactly what it is now pronounced, Scoghs, 
which is Woods. 
