246 THE ROMANS. 



The marches of the Roman generals, by whom the Brigantes 

 were subdued, cannot be traced in Yorkshire, as the route of 

 Agricola is marked in Scotland, by the temporary camps. We 

 cannot fix the site of a single battle, on Brigantian ground, 

 during the whole period of the Roman occupation. According 

 to General Roy, Rey Cross on Stainmoor might be such a camp 

 of the 6th legion, and two of the four camps at Cawthorne are 

 rude enough in design to justify the supposition of their being 

 temporary camps perhaps thrown up by the 9th legion. Se- 

 veral permanent stations are now represented by towns, where 

 neither banks nor ditches, nor the word 'caster/ indicate a 

 guarded camp. This is the case at Castleford, Stamford Bridge, 

 and Brough Ferry. Have they been destroyed by time and 

 cnange, as the old fortifications of Doncaster and Tadcaster have 

 been, or were they never fortified, but merely villages where small 

 bodies of soldiers on a march might be accommodated by the 

 inhabitants ? Derventio and Delgovitia may perhaps never have 

 been marked by camps. 



Many of the purely Roman settlements in Britain appear to 

 be simply military, as, for example, the stations ' on the Wall/ 

 Few of the Latin names of these stations can be traced to British 

 roots, and few of the stations are now centres of population ; the 

 names were perhaps new, and given to new places ; the places 

 were abandoned when the legions withdrew, or soon afterwards, 

 and their names were preserved only in the military records and 

 inscriptions. 



Of the following Roman camps, stations and towns, vestiges 

 remain in Yorkshire, or their site is indicated by one of the four 

 documents already referred to. 



Temporary Camps. 



Rey Cross Camp, p. 18, and 

 PI. XXXIV. 



Kirkleos Camp, p. 98. 



Three of the Cawthorne Camps, 



p. 88, and PL XXXIV. 

 Barugh Camp, p. 24 1 . 

 Lease Rigg Camp, p. 24. 



