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openings, making in all eleven. Besides these are two others, in 

 the east and west faces through which the Roman road is carried. 

 Ten of *the eleven openings are guarded by a mound on the out- 

 side of the depression or ditch ; the eleventh, in the south-east 

 corner, is also guarded, but by what appears a natural elevation 

 of ground. In the Camp on the south side of the road, toward 

 the south-west angle, stands the famed Rey Cross, sometimes 

 called Rere Cross, which gives name to the Camp. The base 

 remains in situ, but the shaft was thrown down when I last saw 

 it (1851). 



The road between Verterse (Brough) and Lavatrse (Bowes) 

 appears to cut through the Camp, as if of later date. Moreover 

 the names of these places seem to recognise the previous existence 

 of a fort (Rha) to which they were both related. Perhaps the 

 ' fine square tumulus ' which is mentioned by Roy within the 

 Camp, may lay claim to this distinction. ' The stone of King 

 Marius formerly stood in this Camp, now succeeded by Rey 

 Cross ' (Gough) . (See Plate XXXIV. fig. 1 .) The Plan of this 

 Camp is rare among Roman works, no other example being 

 known, except on Kreigenthorp Common, near Kirkby Thure, 

 in Westmoreland. 



Looking from Mickle Fell over Stainmoor, along the summit 

 of drainage or ' heaven-water boundary/ as it is called, we be- 

 hold a large group of fells about the sources of the Eden, Lune, 

 Swale, Ure, Nid, Wharfe, Aire, and Ribble. To each of these 

 fells belongs some characteristic form by which it is easily and 

 joyfully recognized, at the source of some favourite stream or 

 among the crowning features of some lovely dale. They may be 

 said all to rest on one general basis or tract of elevated land, 

 which sinks gradually to the east, but is truncated sharply to the 

 west. This mass is, however, ramified in so intricate a manner 

 among diverging dales, and so broken by glens and undulated 

 by prominent scars and crags, as to present little of that mono- 

 tony which belongs to the higher grounds of Derbyshire, Dur- 

 ham, and Northumberland. 



