4 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



another, a ftratum of fand lying between each. The walls now 

 remaining are in fome parts three yards, and in others two 

 yards and three quarters thick. The weft end, for the fake of 

 the ftones, is entirely demolifhed. It has been large, and vault- 

 ed underneath, as moft of the old caftles are. 



At a fmall diftance, and in fight, from the fouth front of Thirl- 

 wall-Cajlle, is an encampment, with a cefpititious rampier and 

 fofs ; the firft pretty high to the north, now called, the black 

 dykes, wherein, on digging turf or fuel, lead-bullets have been 

 found. A quarter of a mile to the weft of it, there is another 

 encampment. 



The Roman wall croffes the Tippal, under the fouth front of 

 Thirhvall-Cajlle, and by a little cottage afcends the hill for a 

 quarter of a mile to the Roman ftation. 



Cacr-vorran (fj, fo called from the Briti/Jj Catr, a town, and 

 Vor-wyn, a caftle ; i. e. a garrifoned town ; Vorwyn being corruptly 

 called Vorran by the Northern borderers. There is a notable fpeci- 

 men of their dialect in an inftrument of truce made by the river 

 Ejk, near Salom, bearing date xv March, M. CCC. XX. IV ; the right 

 honourable Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Archibald Dou- 

 glas, Lord of Gal-way, then governors of the borders. It is in- 

 ferted in the Acla Regla (g). The poor people upon E/k, and on 

 the waftes near this ftation, fpeak the fame dialed at this day. 



(f) Caervorwyn. Britannicis. Lei. Itin. Vol. 6. p. 128. 

 Caervorran. Camden's Britan. p. 848. 

 Magna. Horjley. 



Voreda. I Ridard of Cirincefltr. Dr. Stukihy. 



Caftle Voran. -> 



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