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perhaps be some little old Roman town by the highway side, and in after times, 

 before that it was rained, called Castletown, or Casterton, from its being built 

 upon or near some of their camps, which might then be in those fields. 



About a mile further to the northward, on the west side of the said street, 

 on a great plain or sheep-walk, the foundations of another old town are very 

 visible ; though now there is neither house, stone, rubbish, tree, nor hedge, 

 to be seen belonging to it. I counted the vestigia of the buildings, and found 

 them to amount to about 100 that are still visible ; and the number of the 

 streets or lanes is 4 or 5 ; and not far from it northward is a place called the 

 Kirk-garth, where the church is supposed to have stood that belonged to this 

 town. Tradition calls this place Gainstrop, and vol.2 of the Monas. Angl. 

 shows that there were lands and tenements herein, given to Newsted priory, 

 not far from this place, in an island in the river Ank, falsely called Ankham. 



About a mile or two hence the street runs through Scavvby wood, where it is 

 all paved, and from thence close by Broughton, by a hill which seems to be a 

 barrow, from which the town had its name, quasi barrow town, but that it 

 seems to be too excessively great for one. However, I have found fragments 

 of Roman tiles and bricks there, and millions of petrified shell-fish. 



From thence the causey, all along paved, is continued about a mile further 

 to the entrance upon Thornholm, where there is a place by the street called 

 Bratton Graves, and a little to the east near Broughton-wood side is a spring 

 that turns moss into stone ; and a little further stands the ruins of the stately 

 priory of Thornholm, built by king Stephen. Opposite to this priory, about a 

 quarter of a mile on the west- side of the street is a place called Santon, from 

 the flying sands there, which have over-run and ruined above 100 acres of land. 

 Among these sands was in ancient times a great Roman pottery, as Dr. Lister 

 shows from the relics of ruinous furnaces, and the many fragments of Roman 

 urns and pots still to be met with. I have also found there several Roman 

 coins, and a large piece of brass found in the bottom of one of the furnaces, 

 like a cross, which perhaps was part of a grate to set some pots on, while they 

 were baking or drying. 



Returning back to the street, there are several sand-hills, somewhat like 

 barrows, on the top of one of which was erected a great flat stone, now so far 

 sunk in the earth that there is not above a foot of it to be seen. Entering then 

 into Appleby-lane, the street leads through the west end of the town, where 

 two old Roman games are still practised, though very imperfectly, the one 

 called Julian's Bower, and the other Troy's Walls. From hence the street runs 

 straight on, leaving Roxby, a little town half a mile on the west, and Winter- 

 ton, a pretty neat town. And then about 3 or 4 miles further, leaving Win- 



