A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



During the enclosure of the common several specimens of Roman 

 antiquities were found. This discovery seems to confirm the opinion that the 



vestiges of some fortifica- 

 tions near the village are 

 the remains of a Roman 

 fort or station, through 

 which passed the Roman 

 road between Doncaster 

 and Littleborough. 1 



SOUTHWELL : CAMP 

 ON BURGAGE HILL. On a 

 hill to the north-east of 

 the River Greet and north 

 of the town of Southwell 

 was an oval camp, the plan 

 of which is figured in 

 Dickinson's History of 

 Southwell, published in 

 1 80 1. The site was then 

 largely built upon and in 

 $ part enclosed. It is a 



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CAMP ON BURGAGB HILL, SOUTHWELL. 



matter for regret that, as 

 in the parallel case of the 

 Hexgreve Camp, he gave 

 no measurements. 



The site was inter- 

 sected by two roads, A, the 

 route to Hockerton on the 



north and a minor branch connecting it with another road in the bottom of 

 the fosse. At B the fosse has been utilized as a public road, which mutilated 



the line of 



SCALE or rccr 

 M <t '9 *.o a ?o 



SECTION 





en- 

 trenchments at this 

 point. The narrow 

 or south end of the 

 oval was also de- 

 stroyed by the mak- 

 ing of a sewer, 

 obliterating all in- 

 dications of the 

 entrance, which was 

 probably at this 

 spot. 



WELLOW: JORDAN 

 CASTLE. One mile 

 and a half south- 

 east by east of Oiler- 

 ton and half a mile north-east of the village of Wellow, the ground rises to a 

 comparative height above the surrounding country. On this swelling emi- 



1 F. White, Hilt. ttc. of Nottinghamshire, p. 397. 

 34 



A. Fosse here nearly 

 filled nirh earth 

 in 1900. .j 



rarm House 



JORDAN CASTLR, WELLOW. and 



