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eminent antiquaries, Roger Gale, Efq; Dr. Hunter, Gordon, and 

 Horftey, have affigned it the name of 



Segedunum, garrifoncd by the firft cohort of the Lergi. It feems 

 to be derived from the Roman Seges, corn, and the Briti/h Dunum, 

 a hill, i. e. the fort or ftation on a high ground, furnifhed with 

 magazines of corn, brought by fea from the more fouthcrn pro- 

 vinces, and landed here. I have frequently after high tides 

 obferved large, well-wrought, afliler ftones lying on the more 

 of the river at the foot of this field, the fcatterecl ruins probably 

 of a key. By the large ruins of foundations difcovercd by the 

 plow, it has been a flation of eminence, bidding fairer for being 

 a capital town, than Richard of Cirencejter's northern alpine fron- 

 tier of Rochefter ; better fuited to the Roman tafle and elegance ; 

 fitted for pleafure and commerce. 



In the walls of the old feat of Carr-vill, fome Roman ftones, with 

 infcriptions, were difcovered by Mr. Horjley, and published (f). 



On the other fide of the Shield's road, nearly oppoiite to Carr- 

 vill, a road branches off to the village of 



Watts-End, fo called from its fituation by the end of the Pifl's 

 Wall. It was given, with the village of Willington, on an emi- 

 nence, a mile to the north-eaft of it, to the monks of Durham, 16 

 K. William I, 1 082, by William de Carikpho, Bifhop of that See (g). 



(f) Brit. Rom. p. 104. 



(g) Et ego monachis tradidi congregatis Ultra amnem Tynam duas villas Wyllynttnet 

 JPallefend cum fuis appendiciis. -Carta Willielmi de Carilepho DUNELM. Epifc, fuper H- 



bertat. et poflfefHonibus monachis couceflis, fa^a A, D. 1082. 



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