TRENCHES, CAMPS, &C. 45$ 



the kind they are beautiful and regular, they are 

 four in number and well fortified, they are sup- 

 posed to be the camps of the Romans and their 

 auxiliaries ; perhaps it was a camp of the 9th le- 

 gion in the time of Agricola ; f r we hear no more 

 pf the 9th legion in Britain after that period. 



Those camps must have contained an immense 

 army ; as the largest of them presents an area of 

 560 feet by 550 ; and the remainder are not very 

 inferior. 



Though this camp passes the Roman military road 

 which commencing at York, terminated at Dunsley, 

 near Whitby, the road is supposed to have issu- 

 ed from York near Monk Bar, and to have proceed- 

 ed towards Malton nearly in a line of the present 

 public road from Malton ; or perhaps about a mile 

 to the south of New Malton, it turned a little to the 

 right and passed by Broughton and Amerby, near 

 Appleton-le-street and crossing the Rye about New- 

 some bridge went on to the Barugh, where th ere waai 

 a small camp : from thence it advanced to Caw-, 

 thorn, and passing through that village, (where 

 part of it was visible some years ago,) it has pro- 

 ceeded nearly to the brow of the hill, and then 

 turned eastward to the camps ; where we perceive 

 it very distinctly approaching the camp from the 

 west, and passing through one of them; after 

 which it passes the end of another and running 

 northward it descends the hill in a hollow place or 

 slack ; after that it is lost for some distance, but 

 met wjth again on the mopr ; and after losing it in 

 some Cultivated fields adjoining a farm house, we 

 find it beyond them in great perfection, running- 

 nearly in a straight line towards a hamlet named 

 Stape, in descending to which it again becomes 

 invisible, but is recovered on the other side. At 

 Stape it crosses the present road, between Pickering? 

 and Egton, an4 passes by Mauly cross, which is 

 175 feet to the right ; and continues very perceptible 

 except in a few places, for several miles, descending 

 a gently sloping hill, passing through a small iu- 

 jelosure, near a house on the Egton road f crossing 



