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very clofe to each other, that the roots of the trees, that had 
been cut down to make way for the fame, might not fpring up 
again and blind the road 5 this paved caufeway is Itill very 
ftrong, firm, and vifible in many places ot this ftreet, where 
woods are ftill ftanding on both fides, as undoubtedly they 
were in the time of the Romans, clfe it had not been paved j 
and in other places it is paved, where nothing of any wood is 
now to be feen, tho' undoubtedly there was, when it was 
made 5 in one place he nieafured the breadth of the faid paved 
ftreet, and he found it juft feven yards broad, Englifij mea- 
fure : This ftreet or caufeway in its courfe full north as afore- 
faid, runs by the fields of Hubberftone , which perhaps fignifies 
the place, where the 'Danijh General Hubbn was buried} in 
which fields, not far from this ftreet, is the foundation of many 
Roman buildings to be feen, as is manifeft from the tiles found 
there, and according to tradition, there has been a city and 
caftle in that place ^ and there are two fprings, the one called 
Julian's ftony well, and the other Caftkton well 5 and feveral 
old Roman coins are now and then found there 5 this might 
poffibly be fome little old Roman town by the high-way 
fide, and was perhaps in after times, before it was ruined, 
called Capetown or Cafierton, from its being built upon or 
hard by fome of their camps, that might then be in thofe 
fields 5 about a mile further to the northward on the weft fide 
of the faid ftreet, upon a great plain or fheep-walk, the foun- 
dations of another old town are very vifible 5 tho' now there 
are neither houfe, ftone, rubbifh, tree, hedge, fence or clofe 
to be feen belonging thereto : M. de la "Pryme counted the 
Veftigia of the buildings, and found them to amount to about 
100 that are ftill vifible; and the number of the ftreets or 
lanes are 4 or 5 5 and not far from it northward is a place cal« 
led the Kirk-garth, where the church is fuppofed to have 
ftood, that belonged to this town; tradition calls this place 
Gainfirop, and Vol. 11. Monaft, AngL fhows that there were 
lands and tenements herein, given to Newfted "Priory, "ot faf 
off from this place, in an illand in the river Jnk, falfely called 
Ankham: About a mile or two hence, the ftreet runs thro 
Scawby Wood, where it is all paved, and from thence clofe by 
Sroughton, by a hill which M. de la Pryme would take to be 
a barrow, from which the town had its name , quafi Sarrow- 
town^ however he found fragments of Roman tile and bricks 
there, befides many petrified ftiell-fifh, feveral of which he 
broke, to view their texture, and fee whether he could find 
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